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The traffic of goods in the Aena airports increases 15% on average in the first two months of the year 2010

Air cargo returns to lift the flight

Drafting Interempresas08/04/2010

April 8, 2010

The globalization of markets requires an increasingly rapid transport to make everything as soon as possible reaches its destination. Here can add you the factor security to explain the added value of the transportation by air: not just the planes themselves are safe, so are the airport facilities. Spanish airports and air navigation -Aena- reported that the traffic of goods in the whole of their network of airports was 94.552 tonnes in the first two months of the year, resulting in the gradual recovery of air cargo in Spain, with an increase of 15.2% over the same period in 2009. This change in trend, in comparison with the decline of cargo traffic registered in 2009, is mainly due to the positive evolution of the international burden.

Operation of loading of containers in an Airbus A320 of the Iberia company.

The three Spanish airports with greater weight in freight traffic experienced higher than the average network growth rates. Its latest data, the corresponding to the month of February concluded that the Madrid Barajas international airport in the second month of the year recorded an increase of 25%, which is unprecedented in recent years; the Barcelona - El Prat, 33.6 per cent and the Zaragoza, 26.6 per cent more.

The destinations that handle more cargo volume with the Madrid-Barajas airport is the airport of Gran Canaria (with 6% of the total traffic in January and February accumulated data), New York (4.8%), Frankfurt (4.3%) and Lima (4.2%). The so-called "general cargo" is more common in Madrid-Barajas merchandise, which includes machinery, textile and perishable.

Barcelona - El Prat, the destinations that more volume of cargo handled are colony (with 13.3% of the total traffic in January and February accumulated data), Leipzig (10.1%), Hong Kong (6.6%) and Frankfurt (6.5%). The types of cargo in Barcelona - El Prat are machinery, textile and perishable.

Finally, the destinations that handle more cargo volume with the airport of Zaragoza are Dubai (with 46.8 per cent of the total traffic in January and February accumulated data), Shanghai (14.9%) and Moscow (10.1%). Zaragoza Dubai traffic comes from Emirates Sky Cargo, whose operation has contracted exclusively to Inditex. Approximately 60% of the goods transported from the Zaragoza airport is textile; 14 per cent, fish and 5%, the companies TNT parcel.

Lleida-Alguaire

The new Lleida-Alguaire airport is the first promoted by the Generalitat de Catalunya and represent a great impetus to the lands of Lleida and a stimulus for the Catalan economy. This new infrastructure, which has resulted in an investment of more than 95 million euros, is surrounded by an important road and rail network that facilitates access to Barcelona and tourist enclaves of the Pyrenees and the Catalan coast. The airport is also a key point for the distribution of goods, by the proximity of production centres and connectivity to major transport networks Catalan and other points of Spain.

The Plan of airports of the Government envisages that, in the medium term, use airport some 400,000 passengers a year. As regards goods, Lleida-Alguaire hosts a transport of medium-type, with packaging, messaging, perishable and tertiary services. The same Plan envisages reaching the 3,500 tons of goods annually.

New Lleida-Alguaire airport.

Clasa, the engine's load of Aena

State society centers Logistics Airport, S.A. -Clasa-, property, as a whole, of the entity public business Aena, is aimed at the promotion, construction, management, exploitation and conservation of the centres of air cargo and equivalent facilities at airports in the Aena network. The centres of air cargo from Madrid-Barajas, Barcelona and Valencia are currently in full operation. In addition, Clasa is developing numerous projects in other Aena airports. For example, are fully operational spacecraft 'handling' of perishable goods in the Zaragoza airport, two buildings for courier companies and transport in the airport of Bilbao, and two more for courier companies and 'handling' to third parties in the airport of Vitoria. Finally, being a ship for a logistics operator in the airport of Palma de Mallorca.

Clasa is also dedicated to the provision of consulting services specializing in air freight transport and border inspection activities, as well as in logistics, infrastructure and appropriate facilities and Exchange modal and feasibility studies for the development of the sector of air cargo. In addition, the entity is closely in the development of activities aimed at the promotion and communication of the sector of air transport of goods and the cooperation with relevant stakeholders in the logistics of the transport chain and promoting public institutions of international trade and the representation of employers (Chambers of Commerce)(, Industry and navigation).

Building of the Centre of air freight of Clasa in Valencia.

New logistic area in Almeria airport

Almeria airport will be in the second quarter of 2010 with a logistic zone with an area of 47,000 square meters, divided into three lots, where the agri-food sector companies interested may be installed to export or import goods by land or air. With these new infrastructures, Aena wants to contribute to the development of the intermodal transport of Almeria, one of the largest producers of fruit and vegetables in the world.