Dedicated to Your Business 24 Hours a Day Cargo and Courier Operations at Greater Moncton International Airport

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Dedicated to Your Business 24 Hours a DayCargo
and Courier Operations at Greater Moncton
International Airport
A presentation to
The Transportation Club of Moncton
May 15, 2008
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Greater Moncton International Airport
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Framework

• Overview of 2007
• Why Air cargo?
• The Challenges
• Whats Happening
• The Future
• Conclusion
• Questions

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Overview

• ? Passenger traffic down approximately 40K
  from 2006 numbers
• Revenues down approximately 1/2M dollars
• Cargo up by 1
• Higher than normal operating expenses, loss of
  flights due to hard winter
• 2008 looking much better

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Why Air Cargo?

• Instability of passenger airline industry
• Limited Cdn airline selection for route
  development
• Need for a more stable revenue stream
• ? Air cargo forecast to average of 6.1 next two
  decades, tripling current levels
• GMIA second busiest air cargo a/p in Atlantic
  Canada
• 100 cargo flts weekly
• ? All elements to become the Center of
  Logistical Excellence in Atlantic Canada in
  place
• ? First point of entry on Great Circle route
  between Europe and continental NA
• 50 of all seafood Cdn exports are from Atlantic
  Canada
• Atlantic Canada product currently being shipped
  from Boston, Montreal, New York, Toronto and
  Chicago airports

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The Challenges (The only thing more
difficult than bringing a new idea in, is getting
an old one out)

• ? Providing a reliable logistics chain to/ from
  Europe with competitive pricing for our producers
  and shippers
• Overcoming a 40-50 year old paradigm
• Aligning with a reputable all cargo airline
• ? Working together with partners in the area that
  have traditionally seen each other as the
  competition
• Customs availability
• An overpass to Highway 15
• Runway extension
• Rising fuel prices
• ? Overcoming the myth that there is only one
  major airport in Atlantic Canada

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Whats Happening

• ? Fight for adequate customs service continues
• ? Transhipment status applied for and granted
• Canada East Air Cargo Gateway Group
• working to bring partners together
• ? working to identify cargo opportunities for
  the GMIA
• Trade mission to India
• Southern NB Gateway Council formed
• Exploring two cargo opportunities
• ? Working with NBDOT other govt departments
• Identifying logistical partners in the region
• Air cargo study underway

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The Future

• Land a regularly scheduled transatlantic air
  cargo flight
• ? Convince Atlantic Canada producers shippers
• ? Leverage success to attract additional flights
  cargo companies
• ? Construct overpass to access a/p and DIP lands
  within 2-3 years
• Lengthen runway 06/24 within 3-5 years
• ? Work with EDCCD and City of Moncton to develop
  plan to provide easy connectivity to industrial
  parks (5-10 years)

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Conclusion

• 2007 bad, 2008 good
• ? Passenger airline industry to remain
  unstable from a revenue perspective for some time
  to come
• Air cargo predicted to grow
• ? The GMIA ideally located, and region
  equipped to become Logistical Center of
  Excellence
• ? Challenges remain biggest is to overcome the
  existing paradigm concerning shipping through out
  of region airports
• ? Several irons in the fire on the cargo front
• ? Working in partnership, air cargo will grow

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Questions

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