The 8,000 sqm facility is located in the DLH SkyLog Park in Fischamend in the immediate vicinity of the airport, and Swissport is one of the companies to move in.
Opening a second cargo centre in Vienna means Swissport can resolve local constraints and provide carriers and forwarders with additional capacity and flexibility.
Dirk Goovaerts, Swissport’s Global Cargo Chair says: “We have invested in this state-of-the-art 8,000 sqm air cargo centre to support our growth ambitions in forwarder handling, and of course to serve existing and new airline customers with an even better product.
“We are very excited to more than double our capacity in Vienna and now have the infrastructure in place to support our vertical integration plans.”
The building features a 900,000kWh photovoltaic system and on the ground, the cargo centre is connected with the airside facility by a dedicated electric cargo shuttle.
High-performance charging is available on both sites to ensure the e-truck can shuttle between the two cargo centres without restrictions.
Henning Dieter, Head of Swissport Cargo Services Germany and Austria says: “We are pioneering e-mobility in air cargo handling here in Vienna together with Mercedes, Siemens, XL Forwarding & Transports and the Austrian Federal Ministry of Climate Action. The public charger available supports sustainable mobility as the dedicated Swissport e-truck shuttles air cargo between our two terminals at Vienna International.”