Hartsfield-Jackson's cargo operation wins best airport award

Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport has won Air Cargo Week's prestigious World Air Cargo Award for Airport of the Year for the second year in a row! The ceremony ? held in Shanghai, China, as part of the Air Cargo China 2010 Exhibition and Conference ? celebrates excellence in the global air cargo industry.

"We are proud to be recognized by Air Cargo Week and the cargo community for the second consecutive year," said Aviation General Manager Ben DeCosta. "This award is further proof of our increasing reputation internationally as a major force in the air cargo industry."

The other finalists this year were Changi (Singapore), Incheon (South Korea) and Amsterdam Schiphol (Netherlands) international airports.

Air Cargo Week magazine asked readers to vote, giving consideration to four key areas: investment in cargo services, special facilities, cargo clearance times and plans for future developments.

The cargo that moves through Hartsfield-Jackson creates 176,248 jobs and $35 billion in business sales in the six-state Southeastern region (Georgia, Alabama, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee).

Hartsfield-Jackson is an attractive cargo airport because of its efficiency, low operating costs and lack of curfews. In addition, Hartsfield-Jackson has an innovative, trendsetting design of five parallel runways, six passenger concourses and two cargo complexes to facilitate efficient and expedient connections for air cargo carriers. The Airport serves more than 230 cities in more than 50 countries worldwide, with more than 2,600 daily landings and takeoffs.
The Airport's convenient location near the three major interstate systems allows cargo delivery trucks to reach more than 80 percent of the U.S. industrial market and 79 percent of the nation's largest consumer markets within two delivery days.

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