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SEP 22, 2003 (newstodate): In August, total air cargo volumes at Copenhagen Airport were down by nine percent, to 27,052 tonnes.
For the period January-August, the fall is 11 percent, to 216,591 tonnes.
Both imports and exports are growing at the airport, by 20 and 12 percent, respectively, but this is insufficient to balance the drop by 18 percent in the airport's transfer volumes that constituted 66.4 percent of total volumes.
The same picture emerges during January-August, where transfer cargo dropped 17 percent, constituting 74 percent of the total.
Among the reasons behind the airport's poor performance in 2003 are leading freight forwarders' consolidation of Swedish shipments at Copenhagen, adding to the airport's export, rather than the transfer volumes, and the use of off-airport cargo handling taking shipments from Scandinavia to continental airport by airline trucking.
This latter traffic is currently under scrutiny as it has been proved to be at odds with the Danish CAA's security demands.
For the period January-August, the fall is 11 percent, to 216,591 tonnes.
Both imports and exports are growing at the airport, by 20 and 12 percent, respectively, but this is insufficient to balance the drop by 18 percent in the airport's transfer volumes that constituted 66.4 percent of total volumes.
The same picture emerges during January-August, where transfer cargo dropped 17 percent, constituting 74 percent of the total.
Among the reasons behind the airport's poor performance in 2003 are leading freight forwarders' consolidation of Swedish shipments at Copenhagen, adding to the airport's export, rather than the transfer volumes, and the use of off-airport cargo handling taking shipments from Scandinavia to continental airport by airline trucking.
This latter traffic is currently under scrutiny as it has been proved to be at odds with the Danish CAA's security demands.