Annual air cargo growth reported for Budapest Airport

"Our goal is to provide, by the end of the year, an ideal freight infrastructure for all segments of our well-rounded customer portfolio."

The Budapest airport has announced record cargo volumes, surpbading its record level of 2017 and confirming steady double-digit growth for the last three years, according to a statement released this week.

"These latest figures are interesting because they represent three years of uninterrupted double-digit growth at the airport," said René Droese, director of goods and freight at Budapest airport. "We are concentrating all our efforts to take advantage of the ideal conditions in Budapest and to make Liszt Ferenc International Airport a major logistics hub for freight transport in the Central and Eastern European region."

She added:

"For this, we establish appropriate technical, safety and traffic conditions. The projects involved entered the implementation phase last year and we can complete them this year. As a first step, in 2017 we sold a new freight warehouse and office capacity to our integrating partners. their traffic has been growing steadily for years. "

The Budapest Airport will continue to build on its freight success by implementing simultaneous operations of two Boeing B-747-8F Freighters.

"The combined value of this development effort in 2019 reaches 46 million euros and is funded by the same Budapest airport," said Mr Droese. "Our goal is to provide, by the end of this year, an ideal freight infrastructure for all segments of our well-balanced customer portfolio, including full cargo ships, belly cargo ships, integrators and carriers." road. The increase in demand is illustrated by the fact that last year a number of large and large cargo carriers were loaded at the airport, including Boeing B-747 operated by Cargolux, AirBridgeCargo and Silk Way West. , as well as Airbus A300, A310, A330, used by Turkish Cargo and Qatar Airways Cargo. "

Source: Meantime Communications