Indianapolis airport seeks cargo tenant for US Postal Service facility
2012 04 26
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FINAL operations of the Eagle Air Express Mail operations at Indianapolis International Airport will wind-up a 20-year lease at the end of the year, making room for another tenant, or several companies, to be housed in the 32,000-square metre warehouse and office facility.
The push is for another cargo handler with a focus on pharmaceuticals made in Indianapolis to offset dwindling passenger volumes which got an artificial boost of 2.4 per cent because of last year's Super Bowl.
The airport's aim is to double volumes of Indiana-made products and cargo handled through the airport in 2013 to capture the majority of cargo trucked out of the state compared to its measly one per cent of 104,000 tons handled at the airport, said the Airport Authority's chief financial officer Marsha Stone, reported the Indianapolis Star.
"The other 99 per cent is trucked out, and some goes to other airports, so that means we have a lot of opportunity," she said, hoping to support a growing niche for air cargo shipping of in time-sensitive and temperature-controlled items, much like the Roche diabetes treatment supplies made here and flown non-stop to markets in Europe in the vacant lot left by US Postal Service.
The warehouse boasts 45 loading docks used mostly as a trucking centre by the postal service for the last decade with its air portion given to FedEx, fast becoming its largest shipper at the airport.
Its strategic location next to the north side of the airfield and next to the Indianapolis Maintenance Centre and its 42 acres of surrounding concrete aircraft ramps and aprons means it can park a fleet of 60 Boeing 747, cited the report.
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