The airport measures shipping, technology and sustainability
Leg Airport is in a dangerous upward path, after it has dealt with more than a million tons of shipping every year over the past five years, and grows. 2024 witnessed the passage of 1.17 million tons through the airport, and it is scheduled to exceed 2025, by 12 percent. This is not everything – the airport contains ambitious plans regarding digitization, sustainability and above all, creating a multimedia charging paradise in the heart of Europe.
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Most airports are designed in Europe and around the world, first and foremost, around the comfort of the passenger and comfort. Liege Airport has chosen awareness of focus on the goods first, the return in the mid -1990s, and the positive exploitation of a long list of USPS shipments starting from its golden ticket to unrestricted operations around the clock throughout the week. This fact only provides full flexibility when planning flights and is a major reason for the charter operators for the unique Belgian shipping airport.
While more than 60 percent of its flights are specific, approximately 40 percent of the rented operations – the highest percentage of goods charter at any airport in Europe. Add to times of the rapid transformation of this LGG, fast and effective customs clearance, and its ideal geographical location in the heart of the European continent, and it is clear that we see why the airport meets more than 50 freight airlines-many of them from business partners in the long run.
“When you are in shipping, as long as we have an airport, there is nothing impossible to move,” says Frederick Bron, head of the shipping and logistical company at Lij Airport.
“Our focus enables us for the first time to determine directions, adapt to our operations and improve them, and allocate our infrastructure accordingly. We have created ideal conditions for transporting contact materials and live animals, for example. For example, about 730 tons of flowers pass through our warehouses every day, while there are more than 100 tons, where there were more than 10 tons. Parts every year, and we improve our operations. Constantly to stay at least three steps before developments in the fast -moving commodity sector.
The epidemic was a great educational curve to stay in the foreground. The airport dealt with the highest load in its entire history – 1.41 million tons in 2021 – and was able to do so with less resources than usual. Since then, LGG has accelerated its digital transformation and entered the improved structures and processes to enable ULD faster processing. It has a clear vision of the place where it intends to come in 2030: moving from its current location as the fifth largest airport in Europe, to a place in the first three places.
“There is only another airport that will be able to match or even exceed LGG in its focus on absolute quality shipments in the next five years, and this will be the digital twin!” Torsten WEFERS, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Leg Airport says. “We have already completed a number of prominent landmarks on our digitization journey to the transparency of data and full charge. This is now our first year of LGG Connect-our digital community-and the LGG trace that provides charging movements in actual time, in full swing, and there are digital developments on the horizon, where they are fully blocked, where they are fully blocked, where they are fully blocked, where they are fully blocked, where they are done. Take it completely. It works proactively to reduce any disturbances or safety risks, for example.
Sustainable operations were on the airport agenda for years. In line with its goal of reaching zero carbon emissions by 2030, LGG is already generated 100 % of the electricity needed to operate the building from its own production. It runs a fuel farm in its workplaces that also meet SAF, and like the ground processors that operate at the airport, it replaces the diesel air fleets to EV.
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“We have allocated more than 60 million euros to green initiatives in the short term, with approximately six times this amount invested in long ECO plans of all levels, from limiting noise pollution to protecting biological diversity at the airport and around him, for example,“ Frederick Bron comments. “Part of this solution includes the maximum benefit from our multimedia infrastructure. There will be a lot that can be said about it in the coming weeks. At the present time, we are working to achieve a higher level in our environmental certificate to enhance our global ACI standards, and we hope to obtain the Airport Week Airport Airport award next week.
