Toronto-Hamilton International Airport, Ontario, has bucked the downward trend for cargo handling with recently released figures from 2010 indicating cargo flights increased by 14% compared with 2009, which is 3% higher than the North American growth of 11%. Ad – hoc cargo flights increased by 33.8% year on year.
The airport is currently the largest (by volume) multimodal cargo facility in Canada with leading companies including Purolator, DHL which transferred its trans-border services to Hamilton in 2009, and UPS which has a full sorting facility on site. One of Canada’s principal cargo companies, Cargojet which acts on behalf of a number of third party operators, formed a strategic alliance with LOT Polish Airlines in late 2009, and now provides the only direct cargo service between North America and Poland.
