East Midlands poised to become 'UK's most important' express air freight hub
East Midlands Airport (EMA) is poised to become “the UK’s most important express air freight ...
Fascinating long read from The Guardian on the under-construction logistics hub at Belgium’s Liege Airport for Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba. There are a number of moving parts to the story: historically a steel production city, Liege area needs investment to regenerate its economy; meanwhile Alibaba needs a bridgehead in Europe to step up its battle against Amazon; and local politics play a part too, with concerns over noise and pollution as well as the longer-term future logistics in the region. “We cannot build, in the long term, the development of a region on an economic sector as little anchored locally, as easily delocalised, as international logistics,” said one Walloon lobby group.
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