May 16, 2024 What's News The text write and uses here if the customer wants to know minute estimate. We answer soon we confirm.   title : The Top 50 Cargo Airports     The Top 50 Cargo Airports The most striking thing about the final 2002 cargo results from airports around the world, aside from the remarkable growth among China's airports, is how the big got so much bigger. While much of the world staggered through the year hard pressed to improve on the dismal 2001 returns, the top four freight airports in the world grew at a double-digit rate. The largest cargo airport in the world, Memphis International, also showed one of the richest growth rates - 28.8 percent. Hong Kong International was second to Memphis in 2002, and the leading "hard freight" airport without an express hub, and its 19.9 percent growth over 2001 also ranked among the best in the world. The following list of the world's top 50 airports for air cargo includes the name of the airport, its ranking in 2002, location, percentage change from 2001 and the notable cargo carriers at each airport. It is followed by lists showing the top cargo airports in various world regions and a ranking of the highest growth rates in 2002 for airports among the top 200. The list is based on statistics from Airports Council International, which puts its information together from reports filed by the airports. Inevitably, some airports may be omitted, either because they are not members of ACI or do not provide their cargo information. At least one North American airport probably would have ranked in the top 50 but did not have its 2002 traffic totals by mid-June. Hong Kong International ranked first if only international traffic was counted, a standard that pushed many U.S. airports far down the list. Chicago O'Hare was the world's busiest airport in terms of basic aircraft movements, with 923,855 daily takeoffs and landings - an average of more than 2,531 flights a day. Germany's Hahn Airport was the leading industrial airport with 139,343 tonnes, although Hahn's claim as a purely all-cargo facility has been undercut by the arrival of low-cost passenger airline Ryanair. The steepest decline in the top 200 was Seoul Gimpo, but the 56.7 percent drop was really a switch to Incheon. Otherwise, the Omani capital of Muscat set the mark with a 36.7 percent drop. And the lightest traffic for those that reported any freight at all was at Roeros, Norway, which handled two tonnes. There was no word on whether either of tonnes was transit freight.