Bad weather stumps Swissport’s record handling target

Leonard Neill A DAY OF bad weather at Heathrow Airport denied Swissport Cargo Services South Africa (SCS) the chance to hit a record-breaking target of 10 000tons of cargo handled in a single month at airports in this country. “We reached 9963 tons and were waiting for the British Airways World Cargo freighter to get us past the big target, but Heathrow weather conditions caused a delay long enough to throw the freighter’s load into the next month’s figures,” says SCS South African general manager Colin Baldwin. Baldwin is however satisfied the figure will be overtaken thanks to new additions to the company’s portfolio. Last month it took over the cargo handling for MK Airlines and Air Zimbabwe as well as Air Gabon’s passenger and ramp handling. April 11 sees Air Malawi entering the SCS cargo handling fold. This will give the company 40% of handling business at Johannesburg International Airport. (JIA) Baldwin was head of Cargo Service Center until the merger with Swissport, and now holds the post of GM. Fernand Stauffer is president and chief executive, Allan Booysen is manager of Cape Town cargo services and Craig Crozet heads the road feeder service and manages cargo services at JIA.A