Swissport Worldwide AG has secured a license to provide ground handling services and products at Frankfurt Airport, Germany. The brand new license, setting out in February 2025, extra consolidates Swissport’s market main location as an aviation services and products provider. To be particular a at ease launch of its Frankfurt operations and minimize CO2 emissions, Swissport will be investing in cutting-edge new electric equipment.
In a competitive global comfortable job, Swissport secured a license to provide ground handling services and products at Frankfurt Airport. Tell to launch 1 February 2025, the new license will elope for seven years till January 2032. The company will now provoke the preparations already scheduled for the Frankfurt launch-up to be particular a at ease launch. Frankfurt will become Swissport’s finest pickle in Germany and in fact one of its most distinguished operations in Europe. Already this day, Swissport gives airport ground handling, air cargo handling and fueling services and products at 15 airports in Germany, and at virtually 300 airports worldwide.
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“The license fetch is a distinguished milestone for Swissport, and we take into story forward to serving airlines at Frankfurt Airport. Swissport is a poke-setter in managing monumental complex airport operations, and Frankfurt extra adds scale to our change”, says Warwick Brady, President & CEO of Swissport Worldwide AG. “We are going to come up with the option to continue to provide a competitive income for our airline potentialities by constantly handing over operational excellence to pressure efficiency and repair excellence to positively influence passengers’ abilities. And we’re concerned to enable a at ease transition, making sure job balance for the staff of the most fresh ground handler and continued excessive quality service.”
Next to making sure constant, excessive-quality service to potentialities, reaching its formidable ESG targets is certainly one of Swissport’s high priorities. The company has committed to working 55% of its rapid electrically by 2032 and to decreasing carbon dioxide emissions to zero by 2050. Swissport plans to deploy cutting-edge electric ground enhance equipment in Frankfurt, complementing the plans of airport operator Fraport to abolish all carbon emissions at fully consolidated airports they operate globally by 2045.
Swissport has been operational at Frankfurt Airport with its cargo handling unit since 1995. In November 2020, the company opened a brand new cutting-edge air cargo warehouse in conjunction with a up-to-the-minute pharma center at Cargo City Süd. Swissport Cargo in Frankfurt handled 135,000 hundreds freight and employed 180 staff in 2023.
Furthermore, Swissport’s subsidiary N*ICE has been providing de-icing services and products in Frankfurt since 1999 and subsidiary AFS fueling services and products in Frankfurt since 1988. N*ICE employed 47 and AFS employed 78 staff at Frankfurt Airport in 2023.
