Airports sign up to Buckingham Palace Declaration
Four more airports have joined the fight against illegal wildlife trafficking with Hong Kong, Munich, Sydney and Toronto Pearson signing the United for Wildlife Transport Taskforce Buckingham Palace Declaration. The declaration sets out to make tangible steps to close the routes exploited by traffickers of the illegal wildlife trade as they attempt to smuggle rare […]
Antonov flies satellite from Munich to Cayenne
Antonov Airlines has flown a satellite from Germany to French Guiana in time for its launch on 6 August. Working in partnership with Kübler Spedition, the satellite was flown from Munich Airport to Cayenne Felix Eboue Airport on behalf of OHB System. An AN-124-100 was used to transport the satellite and related equipment, weighing 70 […]
Lammers to succeed Kerkloh as Munich Airport CEO
Jost Lammers will take over as president and CEO of Munich Airport, succeeding Dr Michael Kerkloh who is retiring on 31 December 2019. Lammers, who is CEO of Budapest Airport will start his five-year term on 1 January 2020 and has had a long career in the aviation industry. He has a long career in […]
Cargogate handles 45 years of success in Munich
In July 1974, while West Germany hosted and won the FIFA World Cup, Muc Air Services Gesellschaft für Luftverkehrsabfertigung was established at Munich Airport. In 1999, the subsidiary of airport operator Flughafen München was reincorporated as Cargogate, and in those 45 years has grown from 14 employees to more than 200. The largest airfreight handling […]
Michael Kerkloh to retire as Munich Airport CEO
Michael Kerkloh will retire as Munich Airport president and chief executive officer at the end of 2019 after 17 years in charge. In his time in charge of the operating company, Flughafen Munich GmbH (FMG), Kerkloh has overseen considerable traffic growth and several projects including opening Terminal 2 in 2003, commissioning the satellite terminal in […]
Peli BioThermal adds 13 points to Credo on Demand network
Peli BioThermal is to add 13 drop points to its Credo on Demand network across Europe in partnership with Rhenus Logistics. The new European drop points are among more than 50 planned for 2018 including additional locations planned for the Americas and Asia. The company is also expanding the number of network stations in 2018, […]
Dutch GSSA FlyUs acquires Global Cargo Management in Germany
Dutch-headquartered GSSA FlyUs has further expanded its European network with the acquisition of Munich-based Global Cargo Management, which has a branch office in Frankfurt. The decade old company joins the growing FlyUs GSSA international network and extends the FlyUs global reach to 17 countries. GCM will be rebranded to FlyUs GmbH at a later date. […]
Paderborn and Munich volumes keep rising
Paderborn-Lippstadt Airport, situated in one of Germany’s strongest economic regions at the border of North Rhine-Westphalia, Hesse and Lower Saxony, is also keen to strengthen its customer relationships from a lower base. “We see that more than in other industries air cargo business is a people business,” explains the airport. “So, for us, as a […]
Munich Airport ends 2017 with record airfreight volumes
Munich Airport has ended 2017 on a high note with record breaking airfreight turnover to go with growth in aircraft movements and passenger numbers. The hub handled 378,803 tons in 2017, up from the 353,650 tonnes that passed through in 2016. As well as strong cargo growth, passenger numbers were up 5.5 per cent to […]
Munich and Moscow Domodedovo sign sister airport agreement
Munich Airport and Moscow Domodedovo Airport have forged closer ties after signing a sister airport agreement. Moscow Domodedovo Airport Group chairman of the board Dmitriy Kamenshchik, and Munich Airport president and chief executive officer, Michael Kerkloh signed the agreement (pictured above). The aim of the partnership is a knowledge transfer for employees and managers on both […]
AirBridgeCargo starts third weekly service to Munich
AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) is increasing services to Germany with a third weekly flight to Munich Airport, operating a Boeing 747 Freighter with over 100 tonnes of cargo capacity for exports. Customers in Munich will receive connections to 12 destinations in six Asian countries within a 48-hour cargo delivery time including cargo handling via ABC’s hub […]
Gebruder Weiss opens air & sea freight office at Munich Airport
Gebruder Weiss has continued expanding in Germany with an air and sea freight office in Munich, located at the airport. Staffed by five employees, the branch at Munich Airport also offers local rail transport, e-commerce and logistics solutions, and customs clearance, in addition to air and sea freight. The logistics company opened branches in Hamburg, […]
No summer slump for Munich as cargo keeps booming
Imports and exports continue to boom, and Munich Airport director of traffic development for cargo, Markus Heinelt does not expect to see a ‘summer slump’. He says Munich has posted its best half-yearly results in history, including a nine per cent increase in cargo turnover to 180,000 tonnes, outpacing the industry and more aircraft at […]
LUG to handle cargo for Emirates at Frankfurt Airport
LUG air cargo handling has won a contract to handle belly and freighter cargo for UAE carrier Emirates at Frankfurt Airport from October this year. Emirates runs three Airbus A380s and Boeing 777 belly services a day and eight 777F flights a week to Europe’s busiest cargo gateway. LUG runs freight facilities at Frankfurt Airport and […]
ACI Europe: impressive freight performance in May
Freight traffic posted impressive monthly year-on-year (YOY) growth of 12.2 per cent in May, according to the Airports Council International (ACI) Europe. The airport trade body say this surge was on the back of improved economic conditions globally and a rebound in international trade. Big movers YOY in May included London Heathrow Airport at 10.7 […]
Freight volumes hit an all time high at Munich Airport
Freight volumes have hit an all time high at Munich Airport, handling 180,000 tonnes in the first half of 2017. The sector has grown nine per cent year-on-year and comes as passenger numbers top 20 million in the first half of the year, the same number as it handled for the whole of 1999. Munich […]
Munich Airport CEO elected new president of ACI Europe
Munich Airport president and chief executive officer (CEO), Dr. Michael Kerkloh has been elected president of Airport Council International (ACI) Europe. Dr. Kerkloh has served on the board of the airport trade association for many years, most recently as the organization’s first vice president. ACI Europe represents the interests of more than 500 airports in 45 European countries. […]
Munich Airport CEO’s contract extended for another year
Munich Airport chief executive officer and president, Dr Michael Kerkloh has had his contract extended for an additional year, meaning he will remain as the head of operating company, FMG until the end of 2019. The 63 year old who hails from Germany’s Westphalia region has been Munich’s top executive since September 2002, and is […]
Cool chain investments being made by LUG in Germany
LUG aircargo handling is building a health care centre at its Frankfurt Airport station to meet the growing demands of the pharmaceutical sector. LUG handles freight for 16 carriers at Frankfurt and a further eight at Munich Airport, which it is also eventually looking to develop cool chain facilities at. Speaking to Air Cargo Week […]
VIDEO: Cargogate Munich MD Claudia Weidenbusch
AZura Productions interviewed Cargogate Munich’s managing director, Claudia Weidenbusch at air cargo europe to discuss facilities renovation and new concept of cargo handling in Munich. Cargogate is the largest provider of highly sophisticated cargo handling services at Munich Airport. As a 100 per cent subsidiary of the airport they handled the freight of airlines, who don’t have […]
Munich celebrates 25th anniversary as leading cargo hub
As Munich Airport celebrates its 25th anniversary, director traffic development cargo Markus Heinelt says it is “taking-off” as a leading cargo hub. The present airport, which replaced the old Munich-Riem Airport in May 1992, has grown significantly since opening, with airfreight six times higher than in the year it opened. Cargo volumes grew 5.4 per […]
Strong Q1 for tonnage at Munich Airport
Munich Airport has posted strong growth in the first quarter (Q1) of 2017 compared to Q1 last year as cargo tonnage grew at a significant rate. In the cargo segment, the total airfreight tonnage in the first three months of the year was over 85,000 tonnes – a year-on-year increase of approximately eight per cent. The number of aircraft movements […]
LUG lands Etihad Cargo handling contract at Frankfurt and Munich
LUG air cargo handling has scooped contracts with Etihad Cargo at Munich Airport and Frankfurt Airport. The cargo handler says the carrier was faced with strong competition and has reorganised itself in Germany and changed its cargo handling partner and took over at Munich this month and will takeover at Frankfurt next month. Etihad Airways offers two […]
Munich Airport’s airfreight rises 5.4% in 2016
Munich Airport’s airfreight volumes saw strong growth in 2016 rising by 5.4 per cent to 334,497 tonnes. Airfreight volumes were up from 317,387 tonnes in 2015, while airfreight and airmail rose by 5.2 per cent to 353,650 tonnes. Aircraft movements increase by 3.8 per cent to 394,430 and Munich Airport president and chief executive officer, […]
Munich posts 4.2% growth in tonnage
Munich Airport saw year-on-year (YOY) growth in tonnage of 4.2 per cent in the first nine months of 2016. The Bavarian hub handled 245,700 tonnes during the period, up on the 235,760 tonnes in the same period last year, as it continues to grow its freight business. Munich says this included a 2.8 per cent rise […]
Tonnage up in August across Germany’s airports
Total cargo tonnage levels across airports in Germany rose year-on-year (YOY) by 4.2 per cent to 364,205 tonnes in August, according to the German Airports Association. The association says it is the ninth consecutive month of growth and the strong August lifted YOY cargo growth for the year so far. Gateways in Germany have handled 2,959,047 […]
BMW set to use new service from the US to Germany
A new air cargo service from Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport (GSP) in the US to Munich Airport is set to start, according to the Spartanburg Herald Journal. The publication reports that German car manufacturer BMW is planning on using the new service from the South Carolina gateway to the Bavarian hub in Germany, which will be […]
Strong growth in Munich reinforces need for third runway
Munich Airport has seen cargo volumes continuing to grow with volumes increasing by four per cent to 163,000 tonnes in the first half of 2016. The airport has seen take-offs and landings increase by 2.5 per cent to 191,000 and expects to see this increase by four per cent in 2017. Munich has seen a […]
Asia and China in particular key focuses for Munich
China and Asia as a whole remain the most vital trade lanes for Munich Airport for both bellyhold and freighter-only segments. One of the Bavarian gateways key carriers is HNA Group airline Yangtze River Express (pictured), which operates five-weekly flights to the Chinese cities of Tianjin and Shanghai operated by a Boeing 744 Freighter. Munich […]
Q1 tonnage surge for Munich Airport
Munich Airport saw growth in all traffic segments in the first quarter (Q1) of 2016, and cargo led the way in terms of percentage growth. The Bavarian gateway handled 79,300 tonnes of airfreight handled in Q1, which was a rise of six per cent on Q1 last year. Munich Airport also saw 88,350 take-offs and landings in Q1, […]
