Quito’s Mariscal Sucre Worldwide Airport has reached a brand recent milestone by ranking Fifth within the ‘TOP 20 for air cargo within the pickle’, prepared by the Worldwide Council of Airports of Latin America and the Caribbean (ACI-LAC). This converse underlines the airport’s prominent efficiency in cargo transportation, consolidating itself as a benchmark within the sector at a regional degree and standing out because the airport with the best percentage snarl in cargo within the pickle.
In 2023, Quito Airport recorded a heroic quantity of 335,407 hundreds cargo transported, surpassing the 293,904 tons reached in 2022. This 14.2% snarl makes it the airport with the best percentage develop within the pickle, primarily based fully totally on ACI-LAC diagnosis. With this fulfillment, Mariscal Sucre has surpassed indispensable airports within the pickle, corresponding to Jorge Chávez Worldwide Airport in Lima, Ezeiza Worldwide Airport in Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro Worldwide Airport, amongst others. At the national degree, Quito Airport is the main air cargo hub in Ecuador, processing up to 90% of all air cargo within the nation.
Surely one of many most indispensable factors within the support of this success has been the airport’s tremendous efficiency when it comes to cargo and the companies provided by its companies. Quito Airport is the glorious one within the nation and one amongst the few within the pickle to beget a cargo logistics heart interior the airport grounds. The logistics centre, operated by Tababela Cargo Heart, carries out indispensable processes corresponding to centralised consolidation of export cargo, on the one hand, and customs clearance and transient warehouse companies for imports.
The diversified design of the logistics chain are a world cargo terminal with 13,000 square meters of usable residence, where four cargo palletizing companies operate, and the cargo platform that can perchance accommodate up to 6 excessive-capability cargo airplane concurrently (four E-code and two F-code).
In 2023, the expansion of the export cargo terminal used to be carried out, including 2,880 m2 to the cargo entry and processing areas, as well to to the truck maneuvering residence. These improvements beget boosted operational effectivity, optimizing processes and facilitating the sustained snarl of the airport
An develop within the volumes of cargo transported is predicted for 2024. A notable example used to be the 2024 Valentine’s Day height season, which seen a historical memoir of 26,466 hundreds cargo transported, a 17.3% develop over the an identical season in 2023. At point to, the airport has the operation of 15 cargo airlines, which beget the advantage of its recent companies.
Ramón Miró, president and CEO of Corporación Quiport, commented: “The tremendous efficiency of air cargo is a reflection of the dedication and true effort of the total actors fervent within the airport’s cargo logistics chain, who beget achieved excessive ranges of effectivity within the operation. Quiport has been making a everlasting effort to toughen our companies and companies, as well to to bring more cargo airlines to our airport.
“We are proud to glance how Mariscal Sucre Airport is consolidating itself as a key participant in air cargo transportation within the pickle, contributing to the nation’s financial trend and Ecuador’s connection to the sector,” he concluded.
