FRANKFURT Main Airport's cargo shipments are continuing to face delays due to high demand and new customs procedures for imports, reports London's Air Cargo News.
The airport's cargo volumes increased 13.4 per cent to 188,177 tonnes in September, up 7.7 per cent when compared to 2019 cargo volumes.
New import rules are also contributing to issues, slowing down the processing of cargo.
Freight forwarder Senator International declared that the ground handling situation at the airport remains critical.
'In addition to the customs issue, there are delays in the global supply chains and the high freight volume.' said Senator International.
Ground handler frankfurt Cargo Services (FCS) declared it was working through a backlog of shipments and was making good progress.
'The backlog is mainly due to irregularities in the implementation of a new software as well as processes both required by new customs guidelines,' said FCS.
'FCS has set back to the previous system and processes and took numerous actions to clear the backlog,' said FCS.
'This has made good progress in the last days, but still the high backlog causes a high utilization of our warehouses, which further affects the clearance of imported shipments,' said FCS.
The handler has also employed extra staff while current staff are deployed in extra shifts.
'FCS provides free of charge shuttle services for import to airport warehouses.' said FCS.
Said Fraport: 'The representatives of the air cargo community Frankfurt remain in close contact in order to maintain the flow of cargo at the Cargo Cities,'
'However, this strong growth challenges the handling processes as the pattern of traffic since the rebound in passenger volume has clearly changed,' said Fraport.
'Passenger and freight airlines often schedule flights at very short notice. On occasion, this leads to isolated but sharp peaks in volume during the course of any given day and on weekends,' said Fraport.
'Even though we are only at around half 2019 passenger traffic levels, these peaks come close to the volumes experienced pre-crisis. This requires the support of a great number of staff. At the same time, the strong sustained growth in air cargo, especially with cabin load on preighters, again ties up a large number of personnel.' said Fraport.
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The airport's cargo volumes increased 13.4 per cent to 188,177 tonnes in September, up 7.7 per cent when compared to 2019 cargo volumes.
New import rules are also contributing to issues, slowing down the processing of cargo.
Freight forwarder Senator International declared that the ground handling situation at the airport remains critical.
'In addition to the customs issue, there are delays in the global supply chains and the high freight volume.' said Senator International.
Ground handler frankfurt Cargo Services (FCS) declared it was working through a backlog of shipments and was making good progress.
'The backlog is mainly due to irregularities in the implementation of a new software as well as processes both required by new customs guidelines,' said FCS.
'FCS has set back to the previous system and processes and took numerous actions to clear the backlog,' said FCS.
'This has made good progress in the last days, but still the high backlog causes a high utilization of our warehouses, which further affects the clearance of imported shipments,' said FCS.
The handler has also employed extra staff while current staff are deployed in extra shifts.
'FCS provides free of charge shuttle services for import to airport warehouses.' said FCS.
Said Fraport: 'The representatives of the air cargo community Frankfurt remain in close contact in order to maintain the flow of cargo at the Cargo Cities,'
'However, this strong growth challenges the handling processes as the pattern of traffic since the rebound in passenger volume has clearly changed,' said Fraport.
'Passenger and freight airlines often schedule flights at very short notice. On occasion, this leads to isolated but sharp peaks in volume during the course of any given day and on weekends,' said Fraport.
'Even though we are only at around half 2019 passenger traffic levels, these peaks come close to the volumes experienced pre-crisis. This requires the support of a great number of staff. At the same time, the strong sustained growth in air cargo, especially with cabin load on preighters, again ties up a large number of personnel.' said Fraport.
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