“Yellow Oscar” for Budapest Airport
Budapest Airport was awarded this year’s Cargo Airport of the Year award, also referred to as the Oscars of the air transport industry, based on the decision of the professional jury. With the award confirmed by one of the largest international cargo media agencies, the Hungarian airport has overtaken such large capital registration centers as the Brussels Airport Company, Singapore’s Changi Airport Group and Liege Airport.
It was announced that in 2020, Budapest Airport handed over the BUD Cargo City air cargo handling complex as a 50 million euro development, with the long-term goal of the cargo base becoming a distribution center for the entire Central and Eastern European region.
Since the opening of the center, Budapest Airport achieved another record year in 2011, and in line with the global trend, air transport in Budapest will remain stable in 2022: between January and August, the cargo volume increased by 47 passengers2 compared to the traffic handled in the same period of 2019, and 9 .4, a year-on-year increase in cargo turnover of 9 percent is experienced in the world.
He quoted René Droese, Budapest Airport’s development director, who said: BUD Cargo City not only left the most secure bastion of air cargo handling during the coronavirus epidemic, but also gave the company a huge competitive advantage in the period that followed. The supply chain and more are insured for all actors of the Hungarian economy, not to mention the 12,000 workers in the field of air freight, he added.
They explained that Budapest Airport began the expansion of BUD Cargo City in September 2022: due to the increase in the volume of goods and in order to efficiently serve larger-capacity machines, the capacity of the traffic forecourt connected to the complex and the capacity of the goods handling buildings of BUD Cargo City will also increase.
Opening image: Budapest Airport