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Swissport International has opened a third air cargo centre at Liège Airport, Belgium. It said its move was driven by the need for additional capacity for e-commerce and forwarder handling, and would expand overall capacity by 17% to 27,000sq m. Swissport has operrated at Liège since 2001 and serves eight airlines, including, temperature-controlled handling and express services.
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Swissport Cargo Services Austria has gained TAPA FSR-C security certification at its Vienna International Airport logistics hub. The handler says it further strengthens its position as a trusted partner for handling high-value and theft-sensitive goods.
Plans are also underway to TAPA-certify the whole site including all tenants.
Swissport opened the 8,000sq m ...
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Swissport Tanzania has been awarded IATA CEIV Fresh certification for its operation at Dar es Salaam International Airport. It is the second Swissport location on the continent to receive the status, following certification in Nairobi, Kenya.
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With Valentine's Day fast approaching handler Swissport says that 9,000 tons of blossoms travel safely through its Flower Corridor, from the Kenyan highlands to Europe.
Every week, 400 to 500 tons of cargo, 85% of which are fresh flowers, normally pass through Swissport's 10,400 square meter cargo centre at Jomo Kenyatta ...
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Swissport has launched air cargo handling operations in Australia with services at Sydney Airport starting during November. It follows the acquisition of the Australian airport ground handler Aerocare in 2018. Swissport’s first cargo customers in Australia - VietJet and Batik Air – will be able to expedite imports to and ...
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Swissport International has opened an air cargo centre at Zaragoza Airport, in north-east Spain, its fifth in the country along with Barcelona, Madrid, Malaga, Valencia and Zaragoza. It offers over 4,000sq and provides cargo handling services for general and express cargo. The facility has 14 truck docks. Swissport has provided ...
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Swissport has gained IATA’s CEIV Pharma certification for its cargo centres at Liège Airport in Belgium and Toronto Pearson International Airport in Canada. The handler now operates 21 Pharma Centers and more than 70 pharma-capable air cargo facilities worldwide.
Liège is Swissport’s second CEIV Pharma-certified facility in Belgium after Brussels and ...
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Swissport has upgraded its cargo center at Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (NBO) with a new 750sqm interconnected cold storeroom with direct access from the perishables hub to the airside. The new storeroom can hold up to 110 aircraft pallets, equivalent to just over three B747 freighter loadss. It is ...
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Swissport meanwhile said that its 'Milk Run' supply chain optimization initiative at Schiphol Airport has been a success. It combines freight to and from several cargo forwarders into a single truck, and has saved 20,000 individual truck runs since the start of the operation seven years ago.
However, the handler says ...
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Swissport has officially inaugurated its new air off airport cargo centre near Vienna Airport with a dedicated electric truck shuttle, the first of its kind in the handler’s global network.
The new 8,000sq m facility is in the DLH SkyLog Park in Fischamend close to the. Swissport is one of the ...
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