Worldwide Flight Services (WFS), a member of the SATS Group, has increased cargo handling capacity by 60% at Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas Airport with the opening of its fifth cargo terminal.
The new facility, which makes WFS Madrid’s largest independent cargo hander, was formally opened in a ribbon-cutting ceremony by John Batten, chief executive, Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Asia and Humberto Castro, managing director of WFS in Spain and Italy.
The new terminal increases WFS’ total cargo facility footprint in Madrid to 17,000sq m (183,000sq ft) and will support its client base of 65 airlines as well as providing expansion opportunities. In the last 12 months, WFS has renewed cargo contracts in Madrid with customers including Air China, Air Europa, Etihad Airways, Pegasus, Turkish Airlines and World2Fly, and signed new agreements with CMA CGM and TAAG Angola Airlines.
The building provides 17 landside truck/van docks, direct access from the airport main road, two build-up pallet lanes and docks, four airside truck docks with ULD handling, 2-8°C and 15-25°C temperature-controlled cool rooms for pharma and perishable shipments.
It is powered by 100% renewable energy and with electric battery chargers for cars and warehouse GSE. Indoor AGV (Automated Guided Vehicles) will also be introduced in the second half of 2024.