News / APRC unveils €150m plan to transform regional French airport to all-cargo hub

French logistics property developer APRC has unveiled a €150m project to transform Albert Picardy Airport, near Amiens, into one of Europe’s leading all-cargo airports.

To date, the airport’s air cargo activity has consisted of charter flights operated by Airbus’s fleet of Beluga freighters carrying aircraft parts manufactured at a nearby plant to St Nazaire, in western France.

APRC group director of development and general manager Jorge Hernandez, whose career has included spells at Geodis and FM Logistic, said: “One day I saw ...