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What will 2015 bring?

2014 has been a good year for cargo at Brussels Airport. After years of declining figures, followed by some stagnating volumes, we saw again strong growth in 2014. According to ACI figures, BRU grew 9%, making it one of the strongest growing major airports in Europe. Even more important is the progress BRUcargo is making in other fields: from the strengthening as leading pharma gateway over new full cargo customers to several new real estate projects.

 

Further strong growth is expected in 2015, and the first results in January confirm this prognosis. Moreover, Brussels Airport and the BRUcargo community will further invest in different projects related to pharmaceuticals and perishables as a second round of IATA CEIV pharma should be launched and a project for temperature controlled and monitored ramp transport will be initiated. The BRUcargo Secured Gateway project will also be rolled out further with increased security on BRUcargo and a cargo community system in the cloud becoming operational in 2015. All this work is done in good cooperation with the different organisations at BRUcargo: handlers, airlines and forwarders.

 

Collaborating with all partners and stakeholders at BRUcargo, cargo will be handled even faster and more efficiently to more destinations in the world! And together we will continue, at exhibitions and conferences worldwide, to keep promoting Brussels Airport and BRUcargo as an important and interesting gateway for cargo in Europe.

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Focus on Perishables

 

Last Friday, 6 February 2015, the latest edition of FRUIT LOGISTICA 2015 closed its doors and the last customers of the Brussels pavilion waived “goodbye and see you next year!”

Together with a selection of BRUcargo partners, for the first time we organised our pavilion style booth at this leading event for perishable professionals from all over the world, each year held in Berlin. It turned out to be a great success for all partners and commitments for next year’s edition have already been made.

 

More then ever we will focus on strengthening the perishable flows through our airport, optimising communication with the different players and facilitating on process flows, in order to continue to develop Brussels Airport as flexible and efficient perishable hub into the rest of Europe.

The next Brussels Airport pavilion exhibition will start later this month. The Air Cargo Africa exhibition and conference from 25 – 27th of February in Johannesburg, also has a large focus on perishables.

 

For more information, visit “BRUcargo on the road’: www.brusselsairport.be/en/cargo/brucargo_on_the_road.

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Continuous growth

You haven’t noticed? Qatar Airways increased the number of flights from 4 to 8. With connections from Entebbe and Nairobi, East Africa already was part of the schedule programme. By adding  Accra to the list, now the Western part of Africa is also connected and via BRU Perishables find their way into the Western European consumer market.

 

Brussels Airport is also very happy that Qatar Airways values our position as preferred pharma gateway, as it has launched twice weekly A330 freighters to Doha since Wednesday, January 28th. With these flights Qatar Airways kicked off its new “Pharma Express” service, that will connect two key pharma origins, Brussels and Basel, with the expanding Qatar Airways' network, through the state-of-the-art hub in Doha.

Besides the remarkable growth of the Qatar Airways flights, Ethiopian Airlines also returned to Brussels Airport with 4 times a week freighter flights straight from Addis Ababa. Shortly after ET started their operation halfway January, this winter welcome picture was taken. We are very proud that – thanks to the strong cooperation between different players of the BRUcargo community – we greet ET with a warm ‘Welcome back!”.

Last but not least also Magma Aviation has great development plans. As kind of a Christmas gift a B 767F from Euro Atlantic was positioned at Apron 9 and now is part of the growing and diversified Magma Aviation capacity with a focus on Africa and yes, also on Perishables.

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Setting the pharma handling standard

The pharma certification programme that was launched last year, has now reached its final stage: about half of the companies participating have been awarded with the certificate, the others will follow in the weeks to come. As a result Brussels Airport is the first in the world to have a cargo community with CEIV pharma certified stakeholders through the entire cool chain.

Other airport communities are recognizing the added value of the certification programme and are setting up similar group certifications. At BRUcargo we can proudly say that we don’t meet the global pharma handling standards…we set them, in collaboration with IATA.

 

Based on the interest from other BRUcargo based companies, we are now launching a second wave of certifications with forwarders and trucking companies. As a result the majority of the pharma volumes handled at Brussels Airport will be handled in a fully CEIV pharma GDP certified cool chain, by the end of this year.

 

More info on: www.brusselsairport.be/cargo/pharma.

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Trained to deliver!

As a logistics provider you probably are challenged by your customer to deliver only excellent services. To do so, you need more than excellent procedures. Your staff is key in delivering what your customer takes for granted and therefore needs to be trained to continuously handle smarter, more efficient and more effective processes.

Cargo Training Center (CTC) is there to help you. In all fields of operations, from DGR to Pharma and Security, industry standard courses and tailor made trainings are on offer at very affordable prices. Just visit www.cargotrainingcenter.be.

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