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It’s that time of the year
Worldwide Flight Services is opening its fourth air cargo terminal at Schiphol, but unlike the handler’s three other facilities at the Dutch gateway, the 3,000 sq metre building caters for airline clients not flying into the airport.
A more likely variant these days is handling facilities for online carriers at an airport coming onstream outside the perimeter fence.
This spring airfreight handling firm Aeroterm acquired two warehouses within ten minutes of Montreal’s Trudeau Airport. The two buildings, which have a combined footprint ...
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Comment on this article
Gregory Iwan
August 23, 2022 at 3:28 pmThis piece says nothing about the fact that not all warehouse/cargo handling structures are created equal. There is clear (interior) height to consider, aisle width (especially for “drive-through” buildings), and number of docks with roll-up doors. For the latter there must be sufficient back-up/turnaround space for eighteen wheelers as well. Simply grabbing for a roof isn’t always that smart.