dnata London's Heathrow Facility to Handle Qantas Freight
Sunday, 02 March 2014
Qantas A380 belly loading, the airline have a minimum of 26 tonnes of cargo capacity into and out of Heathrow each day
DUBAI, LONDON - dnata and Qantas Freight announced today an agreement, for dnata - UK to provide the Australian carrier freight ground handling at London’s Heathrow airport.

Under the agreement, Qantas Freight will relocate its UK office and all operations to dnata City, a purpose-built cargo logistics center located at UK’s largest airport. dnata will handle Qantas' freight for the twice-daily Airbus A380 aircraft operations to Heathrow.

Mohammed Akhlaq, business development director, cargo, for dnata’s business in the UK, said: “Our team at dnata City will handle all cargo requirements for Qantas Freight. Ensuring the smooth flow of freight in and out of Heathrow.”

“We are delighted that Qantas has made the commitment to join this development and our team looks forward to providing Qantas Freight’s customers a unique cargo handling experience at Heathrow.”

dnata recently setup cargo points London Gatwick, Birmingham, East Midlands, Newcastle and Glasgow Airports.

Mitch Wild, head of sales and service, Qantas Freight. “Qantas Freight strives to be known for excellence in air freight services, and we are confident that dnata City’s world leading facility and service commitment will help us deliver on this vision.”

“Our customers will enjoy access to the latest cargo handling technologies, and we also recognise the modern, purpose built facilities are designed with the latest regulations in mind. This will result in a more efficient and streamlined export lodgement and import collection process, offering faster processing for our customers.”

dnata project comprises a 20-acre cargo complex covers five air freight warehouses, a transportation facility and yard for airside operations in a security-fenced area.

Three new facilities at dnata City will provide 206,000 square feet of new cargo space. The buildings will consist of a 78,000 square foot cargo warehouse with 15,000 sq ft of office space; a 54,000 sq ft facility with 11,000 sq ft of offices and a 40,000 sq ft building with 8,000 sq ft of office space.

The facilities will also feature an automated cargo handling systems, a AVI handling room, chiller rooms and valuable handling facilities.

The facilities include two existing buildings, the 140,000 square foot Cargo Point and West Point, which has a capacity of 79,000 square feet.

When complete, the complex will also encompass dnata’s existing 60,000 square foot self-contained transport yard, where it has a fleet of 85 modern trucks equipped with GPS tracking equipment providing 24/7 coverage with 4,000 truck movements currently servicing 656 flights every week.


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