Liege Airport has reported robust cargo efficiency within the second quarter of 2025, dealing with 330,184 tonnes of freight – a 14.5% enhance on the identical interval final yr.
The variety of cargo flights additionally rose by 7.7%, reaching 7,120 actions between April and June.
For the primary half of the yr, the Belgian hub dealt with 626,690 tonnes of cargo, up 10% in contrast with H1 2024, and registered a 7% enhance in plane actions to 13,892.
Based on Torsten Wefers, vp of gross sales and advertising and marketing at Liege Airport, the expansion displays continued progress below the airport’s grasp plan and the roll-out of its new CargoLand model. “We continued to carry out very properly within the 2nd quarter, with tonnage up on. That is encouraging, however the market stays unsure. The outlook for the approaching months is optimistic,” he stated.
CargoLand, promoted because the place ‘the place freight meets magic’, is designed to place Liege as Europe’s premier air cargo vacation spot. The initiative has already contributed to an increase within the variety of airways working at Liege Airport (from 41 to 51) and logistics suppliers (from 50 to 61).
The CargoLand providing spans sectors together with e-commerce, MRO, pharma, perishables and categorical freight. Liege Airport says it’s specializing in tailor-made, technology-driven cargo processes, similar to enhanced monitoring, route planning and real-time cargo move monitoring. Multimodal connectivity and a versatile, customer-oriented business method are additionally central to the model’s proposition.
Regardless of world uncertainty – together with tariff considerations, forex fluctuations and geopolitical instability – Liege Airport has seen no slowdown in its transatlantic cargo flows. In truth, US commerce volumes have surged. Since January, over 101,000 tonnes of import and export cargo have handed by means of LGG’s warehouses for the US market, a 34.5% enhance on the identical interval in 2024.
Wefers added: “CargoLand presents commodity-specific, tailor-made cargo processes based mostly on superior know-how… [and] will ship successful and customer-oriented business method that may depart an enduring imprint on the European logistics panorama.”
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