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International logistics company DHL has unveiled plans to build a distribution centre (pictured below) for air freight at Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport. The facility will be built over a plot covering 21.424 square metres, which is owned by maintenance company Jat Tehnika. The 10.176 square metre terminal within the airport complex will feature an administrative building, fulfilment centre for distribution, handling, and processing of goods, as well as a car park for 120 vehicles. Construction is expected to commence later this year.
They have been growing for quite a while. They went from W flights to Belgrade using a B734 to upgrading it to B738 to now operating nonstop flights to Bologna (I think) using B752.
ReplyDeleteBEG airport cargo facilities are a disaster so it's good they are building their own.
Seeing their 757 landing every morning in BEG has become such a treat! I guess with this centre, we will see additional flights, maybe even some widebodies in the future?
DeleteI hope we get their A300 soon, such a beautiful aircraft!
DeleteBelgrade as a cargo hub makes sense especially now that we have a respectable highway network.
Belgrade and Serbia can cement their position as the cargo/transit hub in the region but of they complete good highway and good train lines to all capitals and the other major cities. So its good DHL is investing on that path.
DeleteWell highways are being built and railway reconstructed
DeleteIn order to become a cargo hub, Belgrade and Serbia have to invest not into infrastructure only, but into institutions too. Serbian customs with its procedures is closer to dark communist era, rather than it is in present time. Unreasonable and often long procedures, corrupted inspections and loads of incompetent government employees make Serbia expensive and less competitive when competing for its position in the cargo market.
DeleteAbsolute and utter nonsense. Our company regularly imports things from raw materials, pharmaceutical products, medical equipment etc. Serbian customs is absolutely not an issue for us.
DeleteCustoms clearance is done digitally now and they don't require you to submit papers until the whole process has been completed. If you submit your request by 10.00 that day and all of your papers are in order, your goods are ready to be collected by noon the next day. They are extremely efficient.
Same with export. We can easily take our goods and submit the paperwork on the same day when they are supposed to leave Serbia. Everything is done in a matter of a few hours.
Serbian Customs are pretty efficient.
They are building new one in Ljubljana too, so both airports will most probably be seeing a spike in cargo traffic soon
ReplyDeleteThis center they're building is three times bigger than the one they built in Budapest.
DeleteWell this is significant news. With the increased flights from China it will certainly come in handy.
ReplyDeleteBravo Germany!
ReplyDeleteDanke Deutchland!
DeleteDanke Deutschland doesn't really apply to Serbia due to historic circumstances.
DeleteSo will BEG now handle most of their distribution for the Balkans or will LJU continue to do that?
ReplyDeleteBelgrade makes more sense due to its location but I doubt the Balkans will be covered from belgade as the region is quite big.
DeletePerhaps they’re in for the long term. The infrastructure across the region is almost guaranteed to keep improving, and in 10 years we might end up with a highly respectable highway network and expedited border procedures, in which case it helps if you already have your own distribution center in the biggest regional hub. Just me thinking out loud, this is a fantastic development nevertheless.
DeleteClearly LJU makes sense as they are also expanding there. Not to mention other facilities near the airport.
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DeleteI was at LJU not too long ago and could see the cargo-partner building (very large from what it seemed to me) and also the Kuehne+Nagel facility a bit farther down. Perhaps I saw wrong, but it seemed like their logo. The building looked very big!
Ljubljana has about 3 hectares of cargo storage space up and running and once as much being built. The Cargo side is blooming at LJU
DeleteYou saw right, there are Kuehne+Nagel building near LJU airport.
DeleteIronically, LJU still has less cargo than BEG and ZAG.
Delete@13:42 I love the numbers you posted to prove your statement.
Deleteit does seem to have overtaken Zagreb last year
Delete2023
Belgrade - 12,438
Ljubljana - 11,443
Zagreb - 10,859
Ljubljana is getting Antonov weekly flights every Thursday until the mid summer, this is bound to up the cargo numbers
DeleteBut it is back to third in Q1 2024
DeleteBelgrade - 3,486
Zagreb - 3,019
Ljubljana - 2,229
It is a known fact that Cargo Partner (39.000 sqm), Kuehne+Nagel (38.000 sqm) and DHL (11.000 sqm) have empty centers and the few cargo they have is because of ZAG as LJU has no demand. Should have opened it near ZAG and close LJU.
DeleteAnn 14:03 this has to be a joke right?
DeleteOf course, it’s a joke. Cargo-partner stated that they are already near capacity, and Kuehne is already expanding. Their logistics center at LJU is already the largest Novartis storage facility in Europe.
DeleteAll these facilities do not necessarily translate into more cargo at LJU because a lot of transport is done by road.
Stop putting SLO down, my Slavic brothers. It still exports more than HR and SRB individually.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_exports
Who is putting anyone down and what exactly is your problem? You asked for cargo numbers and I gave them to you without a single comment. If you are angry at the cargo volumes at LJU that is your problem. Get a life.
DeleteDon't forget that Serbia is busy upgrading the railway system. In a few years we are going to have an extremely modern railway line connecting North Macedonia, Hungary and Bulgaria (they are fixing the railway to Pirot right now). Another massive railway cargo distribution center is being built in Lapovo.
DeleteBy having an improved railway and road network, it will make it easier for DHL (and others) to bring their goods to BEG. The ring road to Bubanj Potok is completed thus further improving BEG's connectivity with the wider region.
Zagreb next please. The air cargo centre there is also a disaster.
ReplyDeleteConcerning Belgrade Airport, has anyone an idea when the main runway will open?
ReplyDeleteend of year.
DeleteIt really is time for AirSerbiaCargo Get 2-3 737F and 2 ATRs
ReplyDeleteCargo hub? For Serbia and Macedonia maybe. No luck without joining EU, sorry but that's a fact, at least when it comes to cargo.
ReplyDeleteNaturally, I was referring to air cargo
DeleteDhl is also builidng a new centre in Zagreb in the Meridian 16 zone but there aren’t any pictures of the project.
ReplyDeleteOnly logical was Nis, INI, bcs, 200 km from SOF,PRN,SKP,BEG,next to highway,Railway passes on airport land, low trafic, no fog,crossroads, cheap infrastructure and cheaper
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