With 20,112 metric tons of flowers, Quito’s Mariscal Sucre Airport announced that it exported 4.8% more flowers for this year’s Valentine’s season compared to 2020. The volume exported in this high season is the highest achieved at the Quito airport since its opening in February 2013, exceeding the 19,177 tons reached in 2020, the second best year of exports for Valentine’s Day.
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The air terminal reported that the flowers were sent to different destinations in the world during the 23 days that this year’s season lasted. Ramón Miró, president and CEO of Corporación Quiport, highlighted the performance of the airport’s logistics chain: cargo consolidation at the Tabacarcen logistics center, palletizing at the export cargo terminal and finally shipment at each of the the aircraft that arrived at the cargo platform of the Quito airport.
“This achievement is all the more commendable because we were still in the middle of the battle with the omicron variant and, despite all the adversities that this strain brought, we achieved this great milestone,” said the manager.
Miró highlighted that the performance of air cargo in Quito has registered a sustained growth since the start of operations of the airport in the Tababela parish.
Despite the pandemic, air transport of flowers was the second best in eight years
In 2021, it exceeded the historical record in terms of annual transported volume, with 272,700 metric tons that include exports, imports and domestic cargo. Cargo performance in 2021 surpassed the record for 2019, the second best year, by 15.8%; in that year the total volume was 235,500 metric tons.
He added that the cargo operation of the Mariscal Sucre airport even motivated those responsible for the Juan Santamaría Airport in San José, Costa Rica, to send a delegation to Quito on February 10 to learn more about the air cargo management model. , in order to take the best practices and implement them in your airport. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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