Asia slowdown impacts Schiphol’s half year results

Declines in Asia and Europe traffic impacted Amsterdam Airport Schiphol’s first half results with the airport handling 784 567 tonnes in the first six months of 2015, down 2.1% on 2014.

Asia traffic was down 3.8% at 293 293 tonnes while Europe was down 16.2% to 64 198 tonnes.

Other regions held up better with Africa only marginally down (0.1%) at 88 860 tonnes.

In the same period, freighter movements rose 1.4% to 8 218. Schiphol’s best month in the period was March, with a total of 139 597 tonnes.

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