Worldwide Flight Services (WFS), a SATS company has signed a long-term lease on two warehouses at Frankfurt Airport to enable it to expand its e-commerce services.
The handler will take over two warehouses and two office buildings on a 24,000sq m site within the airport’s Cargo City South.
The facilities will be equipped with ULD handling systems and volume and dimension scanners. When fully operational, it will give WFS capacity to handle up to 100,000 tonnes of import and export freight annually for E-commerce and forwarder clients.
WFS’ EFFH service makes freight Ready-for-Carriage, captures weight and cargo measurements and provides crating, repacking, security screening, consolidation, shipment labelling and transportation between forwarders and handling agents. It also includes import deconsolidation, sorting, preparing shipments for customs clearance, and onward transportation by road.
WFS also offers EFFH services in Amsterdam, Brussels, Dublin, Liege, Madrid, Stockholm, and at 12 airports across France, including Paris CDG.
