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By Alex Lennane
Dnata is to build a new 250,000 sq ft warehouse at Heathrow, to be known as Dnata City East.
The facility has planning consent, allowing Dnata to go ahead with a building to complement its existing facilities.
Dnata City East will be one of the largest ever off-airport pre-lets at Heathrow. Opposite the Heathrow Cargo Terminal and next to the Southern Perimeter Road, it will give the handler easy access to the airport’s operational areas.
“Dnata City East will help us to accommodate increased cargo handling demand from ...
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Derek Jones
October 12, 2018 at 2:30 pmFull marks to DNATA for backing Heathrow’s cargo community in a way which the airport’s owners seem unable or unwilling to do.
Mark Reid
October 14, 2018 at 12:14 pmFurther increasing pressure on the “horseshoe” and Southern perimeter road whilst giving DNATA great access to airport operations it is difficult to see how this will ease congestion concerns for their customers and forwarders delivering in, collecting cargo.
Heathrow is heavily congested and further large cargo buildings will only increase the impact on this main route into the cargo centre. Growth at London Heathrow needs some out of the box thinking and this isn’t it.