Keen to be gateway airport for the Americas, DFW Airport ramps up new infra
Even as the aviation sector and airports, in particular, struggled with the severe impact of the Covid-19 pandemic causing a significant reduction in cargo throughput, many have since pivoted towards creating new infrastructure and tapping new avenues and markets.
In line with this the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) that handled close to a million tons of cargo in 2019, has been making serious investments into upping its cargo facilities and creating new infrastructure aimed at attracting and processing more cargo in the future and turning itself into a key gateway airport, both for the US-bound cargo and for the intercontinental cargo flows.
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From talking to key players in the US to shift focus from the coasts to DFW Airport, to hard-selling its proximity to Mexico’s booming auto industry there and creating trade lanes in India, DFW has been aggressively exploring new partnerships and business avenues in the past few years.
“We estimate that about 50 percent of the cargo in our catchment area is actually leaking and being transported to other gateways and moving out of there. So we've had our teams go all over Texas and the surrounding region, talking to the decision-makers there and trying to explain to them the benefits of DFW and how we can help them save time and money. Our proximity to Mexico is another tremendous advantage for us with the auto industry continuing to boom in northern Mexico and we being the closest major gateway there,” John Ackerman, Executive Vice President global strategy and development at DFW Airport told The STAT Trade Times in the Cargo Masterminds interview series aired on Monday (August 16).
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