Chopin Airport handled almost 14% more cargo in Q1 y/y

In the first quarter of 2016, Chopin Airport handled almost 14 percent more cargo than in the corresponding period of 2015. The total weight of goods transported from January to March is nearly 15 thousand metric tonnes. In domestic traffic, the weight of transported cargo was 130 tonnes (an increase of 3.2 percent y/y). In international traffic, the increase was 13.7 percent - from 12.9 to 14.6 thousand tonnes. More goods are imported than exported to Poland: 8,300 tonnes were imported, 6,400 tonnes were exported. The most popular cargo destinations in terms of volume carried included: Cologne (2,500 tonnes), Leipzig (2,200 tonnes), Dubai (1,800 tonnes), New York (1,300 tonnes) and Chicago (1,000 tonnes). The biggest cargo carriers at Chopin Airport are: LOT Polish Airlines (4,900 tonnes), UPS Airlines (2,800 tonnes), European Air Transport (2,200 tonnes), Emirates (1,800 tonnes), TNT Airways (700 tonnes) Warsaw airport handles more than 70 percent of cargo traffic in Poland.