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There is one major airport in the region, Copenhagen Airport (www.cph.dk), which is also the largest in Scandinavia and in Northern Europe. The airport is connected to the rest of Denmark, Malmö and southern Sweden by train and motorway.
Copenhagen Airport offers direct flights to 132 destinations around the world – by far the greatest number compared to other Scandinavian airports. Furthermore, Copenhagen Airport serves as air traffic hub for the Nordic countries, the Baltic region as well as northern Germany.
Figure 2.1: Air transport times from Copenhagen
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Cargo
Due to its unique geographical location Copenhagen Airport is considered the northern European hub for air cargo traffic to Scandinavia, the Baltic countries and the northern European mainland. With 335,000 tons of cargo handled in 2005 and with direct flights to 31 cargo destinations, the airport is the tenth largest cargo airport in Europe as showed in table 1 below. The average cargo transit time is 3 hours compared to 8 hours in Amsterdam, 10 hours in Brussels, 12 hours in Frankfurt, 12 hours in London and 6 hours in Stockholm.
Table 1: European cargo airport ranking by tonnage, 2005
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EUROPEAN |
WORLD |
AIRPORT |
COUNTRY |
TONNAGE |
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1 |
6 |
FRANKFURT |
Germany |
1,963,141 |
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2 |
11 |
PARIS DE GAULLE |
France |
1,770,940 |
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3 |
16 |
AMSTERDAM SCHIPHOL |
Netherlands |
1,495,918 |
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4 |
17 |
LONDON HEATHROW |
UK |
1,389,591 |
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5 |
27 |
LUXEMBOURG |
Luxembourg |
742,758 |
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6 |
29 |
BRUSSELS |
Belgium |
704,569 |
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7 |
32 |
COLOGNE |
Germany |
643,653 |
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8 |
43 |
MILAN MALPENSA |
Italy |
383,957 |
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9 |
45 |
MADRID BARAJAS |
Spain |
365,444 |
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10 |
48 |
COPENHAGEN |
Denmark |
355,087 |
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26 |
124 |
HELSINKI |
Finland |
113,998 |
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31 |
147 |
STOCKHOLM ARLANDA |
Sweden |
91,703 |
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32 |
151 |
OSLO |
Norway |
84,268 |
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33 |
155 |
HAMBURG |
Germany |
82,161 |
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35 |
171 |
GOTEBORG |
Sweden |
60,635 |
Source: AirCargoWorld
The growth in cargo to and from Copenhagen Airport is also driven by the strongly growing import from Asia. In 2005 there were 13 weekly cargo connections to Asia which is a tripling over three years.
Copenhagen Airport has received numerous awards for, among other things, its high service level, shopping facilities, infrastructure and baggage handling system. Thus, IATA Global Airport Monitor rated Copenhagen Airport “World Best Airport” in 2000 and 2002 and “Europe’s Best Airport” in 2003, 2004 and 2005. The ratings were based on surveys, each involving more than 50,000 passengers.
