In October, two of Europe’s leading cargo airports (measured in volume terms), both saw cargo throughput decrease.
Cargo volume at Frankfurt in Germany (Europe’s biggest), contracted by 1.5% in October compared to the same month a year earlier to 185 222 tonnes. This marked the eighth straight month of year-on-year declines. Year to date, Frankfurt’s cargo traffic shrunk by 2.5% to 1.7 million tonnes.
For Heathrow (Europe’s No 4), the October throughput was down 1.4% to 132 575t, the sixth consecutive month of falling cargo volumes. From January to October, volumes were 1.2mt - an increase of only 0.1%.
