Philadelphia International Airport is located right in the middle of the US political capital Washington DC in the south and the financial capital New York in the north. This important airport in the east cost of the US did very little to develop cargo business initially and a lot of cargo business growth happened by accident.
“I think our cargo operation could have grown significantly beyond where it is today. But we just didn’t have any facilities or any opportunities to expand our capacity,” says Jim Tyrrell, Chief Revenue Officer, Philadelphia International Airport, in the latest episode of Logistics Tech Dialogues, presented by Kale Logistics Solutions.
Watch the full interview with Jim Tyrrell, Chief Revenue Officer, Philadelphia International Airport.
However, things began to change in the recent years. From 2019, the airport has handled over 600,000 tonnes of cargo annually. For the year 2021 the annual cargo throughput of the airport was 643,138 tonnes of cargo.
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