European cargo hubs saw a mixed August, with two of the top three airports seeing monthly declines but year to date increases in airfreight volumes.
Cargo throughput (airfreight+airmail) at Frankfurt, Europe’s number cargo hub in 2015, remained “almost stable” at 171,871 tonnes in August, down 0.1% on the same month last year.
To date, the German airport has seen a marginal 0.7% increase in year to date figures of just under 1.4m tonnes for the eight months of 2016 ended August.
In 2015, Frankfurt saw a 2.5% decline in annual cargo throughputs to 2.1m tonnes, compared with 2014.
Amsterdam-Schiphol airport, third by European volumes in 2015 recorded a 1.3% decline in August to just under 136,000 tonnes but for the year to date is 1.6% ahead of the same period in 2015, with just over 1m tonnes for the first eight months of 2016.
London-Heathrow, the fourth largest European hub by volumes in 2015 at 1.5m tonnes, saw a 0.3% rise in throughput in August at 123,000 tonnes, and is 1.7% ahead year to date at just over 1m tonnes.
London-Stansted saw a 6.8% rise in August at 20,000 tonnes and is up by 8.1% year to date at 164,000 tonnes for the first eight months of 2016 versus 2015.
Paris, the second largest European hub in 2015 at just under 2.1m tonnes, saw a 2.8% rise in the first seven months of this year to 1.2m tonnes, but has yet to report its August statistics.
• In our airport review, the Air Cargo News edition of August 22, our table for the top European airports reporting their figures for the first five months of this year included incorrect data for the percentage increase or decline.
The figure shown was for the month of May alone. It should have been for the aggregate percentage increase or decrease during the first five months of 2016. Our apologies for this error.
Produced below is the correct table.
European airport throughputs, in cargo tonnages, January to May, 2016
City
Airport
IATA Code
Country
Tonnages
+/-%
Paris
Charles de Gaulle
CDG
France
870,562
4.0%
Frankfurt
Frankfurt
FRA
Germany
865,918
0.2%
Amsterdam
Schiphol
AMS
Netherlands
662,270
1.5%
London
London Heathrow
LHR
UK
629,061
1.6%
Leipzig
Leipzig/Halle
LEJ
Germany
423,070
6.4%
Cologne
Cologne Bonn
CGN
Germany
310,611
1.6%
Luxembourg
Findel
LUX
Luxembourg
302,498
3.5%
Liege/Bierset
Liege Airport
LGG
Belgium
274,731
4.3%
Brussels
Brussels Airport
BRU
Belgium
188,651
-6.5%
Madrid
Madrid–Barajas
MAD
Spain
165,913
8.3%
Munich
Munich Airport
MUC
Germany
142,755
4.7%
Milan
Milan Malpensa
MXP
Italy
119,358
-40.9%
Vienna
Vienna Airport
VIE
Austria
114,450
5.2%
London
London-Stansted
STN
UK
102,596
11.0%
Helsinki
Helsinki
HEL
Finland
72,105
11.3%
Barcelona
El Prat
BCN
Spain
53,563
17.5%
Paris
Orly
ORY
France
49,345
-8.0%
Budapest
Ferenc Liszt Intl
BUD
Hungary
41,493
12.8%
Zaragoza
Zaragoza
ZAZ
Spain
40,426
25.0%
Frankfurt
Hahn
HHN
Germany
27,891
-24.2%
NOTES: Cargo volumes based on monthly or annual filings from individual airports, local authorities or government statistical bodies. Some values may be subject to revision by relevant sources. Where applicable, tons and lbs have been converted into metric tonnes and rounded up. Throughputs may include pure freight, express, mail or road feeder volumes, either separately or in aggregate, subject to individual reporting regimes of airports, local authorities or government statistical entities.
