Cargo Screening: revenue or cost driver?

Nathan de Valck

Key Account Manager, Cargo Business Unit

Brussels Airport Company

BRUSSELS AIRPORT

Nathan De Valck Cargo Account manager Prague, 18 September 2013

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We shape, develop & manage BRUcargo as the preferred logistical hub in our region.

We offer an attractive and competitive logistics platform with state of

the art facilities and processes, supporting airlines, forwarders & business partners to realize their ambitions.

We create sustainable value through customer focus and premium

service delivery at BRUcargo.

Brussels Airport New cargo focus

Central location in Europe Brussels, a top European Logistics Hub, in the political, cultural

and economic/logistical Heart of Europe:

Source: Coliers International 2013

With a trucking time of max 9h from Brussels, more than 66% of the air cargo market in Europe is within easy reach.

Top European Logistics Hub

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Top European Logistics Hub

What we as an airport should do: Make sure that all stakeholders

can do their job better tomorrow

Can do more work tomorrow

see a long term future at Brucargo

How can we do this:

Be a facilitator at the airport

Bring parties together to do business

Customer intimicy: your problems are and should be our problems

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BRUcargo Secured Gateway

Turn BRUcargo into an efficient and secure cargo area

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BRUcargo

Secured

Gateway

Identity

Security Process

Certification

BRUcargo at Brussels Airport

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BRUcargo Secured Gateway

Mobility Study

Cargo volumes

Current situation

Export cargo volumes: 320.000 ton

• Total export cargo BRU in 2012 (rounded): 250.000 ton flown cargo

• 70.000 ton trucked cargo (transit not included)

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flow cargo

trucked cargo

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Cargo Screening:

• Integrator traffic: 60.000 ton (own screening) 18%

• Current amount of cargo being screened already: 20.000 ton 6%

• Cargo secured ex forwarder: 50.000 ton cargo 16%

• Known consigner as of April: 50.000 ton secure cargo 16%

Remaining cargo that will need to be screened: 140.000 ton 44%

integrator traffic

current screening

known cargo ex KC

secured by forwarders

additional screening

Cargo volumes

1. Cargo Screening Workgroup Initiative from TBAC, in order to overcome passive/reactive approach from industry

Goal: benchmark Cargo Screening methods

Involvement of all stakeholders

Start: October 2012

Conclusion: BRU in line with other gateways

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Cargo screening

2. Industry consultation Goal: available capacity and possible investments

Individual talks: TBAC = neutral moderator

Freight Forwarders

Handling agents

Airlines

Security providers

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Conclusion:

Exploit available infrastructure, by extending opening hours of existing X-ray operation

Make use of EDD earlier in supply chain: screening at premises of Freight Forwarder

manage uncertainty in business case for new investment

Cargo screening

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Cargo screening 3. Additional screening volumes

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1. Full use of existing X-ray machines: + 80.000 ton

2. Optimisation of EDD: + 5.000 ton

3. New EDD capacity: + 35.000 ton

4. New central screening infrastructure: + 20.000 ton

integrator traffic

current screening

known cargo ex KC

secured by forwarders

additional screening

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Cargo screening 3. Additional screening volumes

BRUcargo screening capacity:

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Swissport X-ray: 2

EDD ETD

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Aviapartner X-ray: 2

EDD ETD

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WFS X-ray: 2

EDD ETD

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BRUcargo screening capacity:

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Swissport X-ray: 2

EDD ETD

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Aviapartner X-ray: 2

EDD ETD

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WFS X-ray: 2

EDD ETD

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G4S Cargo Solutions X-Ray: 2 – 4

EDD

ETD

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Cargo screening: next steps

Objective

• Pro-active approach

• Maintain leading position

• Guarantee enough alternatives in the cargo screening market

Projects

• REST

• Decompression + ETD

• BRUcargo Secured Gateway

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Thank you ! The Cargo Business Unit at Brussels Airport is ready

to assist you with any further questions or support.

For more information, please contact:

Nathan De Valck

Cargo Account Manager

Phone: +32 2 753 41 68

Mobile: +32 473 44 02 76

nathan.de.valck@brusselsairport.be

www.brucargo.be / www.brusselsairport.be

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