<span class="avtext-n">The airport is enlarging its cargo infrastructure and plans a new logistics center for temperature-sensitive pharmaceuticals. About 13,000 m² was added to the Air Cargo Center along with the deployment of cutting edge technologies. In the future, strong emphasis will be placed on the new Pharma Handling Center. Moreover, Vienna Airport is focusing on sustainable growth. One of the country’s largest photovoltaic facilities covering an area of approx. 8,000 m² was installed on the roof of the state-of-the-art Air Cargo Center. The airport operating company Flughafen Wien AG is investing about € 17.9 million to expand its cargo capabilities.</span>
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<strong class="avtext-n"><span class="avtext-n">Expansion of air cargo as a strategic business area </span></strong>
<span class="avtext-n">“Our good market position as an air cargo transshipment hub will be further strengthened thanks to the expansion of the Air Cargo Center. In particular, we can focus on a market niche with high standards on the basis of the future Pharma Handling Center and position ourselves through first-class expertise and an optimal infrastructure. Austria is an exporting country in the pharmaceutical industry, which is developing very well. We will support domestic pharmaceutical companies to generate growth by providing special, highly professional handling services”, says Julian Jäger, Member of the Management Board of Flughafen Wien AG, pleased with the developments.</span>
<span class="avtext-n">“The fact that half the export production value of Lower Austrian industry i.e. products manufactured to the amount of € 8 billion is transported as cargo throughout the world via Vienna Airport underlines the airport’s essential role as a cargo transshipment hub. Further growth is expected in the years to come, especially due to the strong increase in e-commerce. Our own investments, especially the locating of logistics partners at the airport site such as cargo-partner, Kühne+Nagel and soon DHL contribute to exploiting this growth potential. DHL will set up a logistics center on an area of over 60,000 m² and create 500 new jobs. However, a decisive factor of success is expanding the transport and traffic infrastructure, for example realizing the Schwadorf-Fischamend bypass road project which goes by the western part of the airport fence as well as the Lobau Tunnel as a means of completing the motorway ring around Vienna”, states Günther Ofner, Member of the Management Board of Flughafen Wien AG.</span>
<strong class="avtext-n"><span class="avtext-n">Highly professional handling of pharmaceutical products</span></strong>
<span class="avtext-n">The new Pharma Handling Center featuring about 1,600 m² of space was set up in the recently enlarged Air Cargo Center. The facility works on the basis of a “box-in-box system”, which is a modular approach to secure different temperature ranges. A cold store with an area of 153 m² enables a temperature range of 2°-8°C, whereas another 1,415 m² of the cold storage facility can be temperature-controlled at a range of 15°-25°C. It is also vital to meet</span>
<span class="avtext-n">various other requirements such as cooling on the airport apron by reefer trailers as well as docking stations for lorries. Vienna Airport will invest about € 1.9 million in the new Pharma Handling Center up until the autumn of 2018.</span>
