Since 2019 we have recorded a strong and sustained growth in air cargo volumes at Brussels Airport which continued through the year 2021.
Outperforming average growth rates within Europe, Brussels Airport has increased its market share.
In spite of this strong growth, the cargo operations continued to run smoothly, without congestion or additional waiting times. This great achievement over the past few years is only possible thanks to the strong collective performance of the entire Brussels Airport cargo community, with integrators, forwarders, handlers, airlines, truckers and all other stakeholders contributing. This outcome is also the result of the investments made in the expansion of our first line capacity by delivering new buildings such as Brucargo West and the new Swissport Cargo handling building, and as a community, in standardizing and digitizing various operational processes into the open data sharing platform BRUcloud. Decades of experience in complex airside operations within the workforce at the various partner companies at Brussels Airport and the ability to adapt and continuously improve the processes
largely contribute to the smooth running of operations.
In the full-freighter segment, Brussels Airport is seeing growth among almost all existing customers with routes from Asia and North America as main contributors to the additional growth, followed by Africa. The transport of Covid-19 vaccines is also a major contributor, with more than 800 million vaccines handled at Brussels Airport since the start of the vaccine shipments in November 2020.
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