Freight

Introduction

Despite the severe drop in full freighter movements (-10.4%), the total volume decreased by only -2.5% to 1,72 million tons. This is a result of improved load factors for both full freighters (+3.8%) as well as more effective usage of belly capacity on passenger flights (+3.1%).

Monthly totals per aircraft type

Freight, monthly totals per aircraft type (x1,000 tonnes)

Annual totals by continent

2018

Compared to
2017 in %

Total (x1,000 tonnes)

1,716.5

-2.5%

Passenger services

737.7

4.1%

Full-freighter services

978.8

-7.0%

Inbound

877.7

-3.0%

Outbound

838.8

-2.0%

Freight, main origins and destinations

Freight, main destinations (tonnes)

Ranking

(2017 ranking)

Airport

IATA code

2018 in tonnes

Compared to
2017 in %

1

(1)

Shanghai

PVG

206,102

15.5%

2

(3)

Nairobi

NBO

85,701

-3.2%

3

(2)

Moscow

SVO

79,260

-14.5%

4

(4)

Doha

DOH

64,630

2.1%

5

(9)

Guangzhou

CAN

48,580

6.5%

6

(5)

Chicago

ORD

48,142

-17.3%

7

(6)

Singapore

SIN

47,526

-15.9%

8

(7)

Quito

UIO

47,378

1.8%

9

(10)

Hong Kong

HKG

41,961

-5.8%

10

(15)

New York

JFK

41,272

29.7%

11

(11)

Jeddah

JED

36,848

-6.0%

12

(8)

Baku

GYD

35,730

-22.3%

13

(12)

Seoul

ICN

35,538

-9.0%

14

(16)

Taipei

TPE

28,638

-8.2%

15

(13)

Tokyo

NRT

26,135

-30.4%

16

(20)

Leipzig

LEJ

26,091

-0.1%

17

(14)

Abu Dhabi

AUH

25,570

-30.4%

18

(23)

Mexico City

MEX

25,465

3.7%

19

(22)

Johannesburg

JNB

25,213

-1.8%

20

(21)

Dubai

DXB

25,075

-3.9%

Annual totals by aircraft type

Annual totals by aircraft type (x 1,000 tonnes)
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