Last year's number one air cargo hub in Germany and Europe, Frankfurt airport actually saw September volumes fall 4.7% to 170,200 tonnes, as a result of strong declines in North America, Latin America and the Far East, according to airport operator Fraport. In the last year, Frankfurt has reported a 2.6% decline in total air cargo volumes to just over 1.5m tonnes.
For the first eight months of the year, Paris' cargo volumes were down 4.1%, as were Schiphol's, by a lesser 1.8%.
But it's not all been bad news for Europe - Belgian hub Brussels, titled the ninth largest European cargo airport by volume in 2014, saw September's airfreight traffic increase by 1.6%. Meanwhile Germany's Munich airport, the fifteenth largest European freight hub by volumes last year, reported a 10% year-on-year rise in cargo tonnages for the period from January to September 2015, turning over a total of some 236,000 tonnes this year.
