STATISTICS

Milan Malpensa Airport closed 2022 with 721,000 tons of cargo transported, with an increase of 28% compared to 2019 (pre-pandemic baseline). Of these total volumes, over 320,000 tons were transported by all cargo flights (+10% compared to 2019), while the courier segment, with 291,000 tons, accounted for 40% of total cargo compared to 14% in 2019 (+259%).

Over the past years, couriers, and primarily DHL, have driven the growth of cargo at Milan Malpensa. The growth of express couriers and the increase in volumes of traditional cargo flights (especially in import) have abundantly covered the shortage of belly cargo (goods carried in the holds of passenger flights), strongly impacted by the pandemic. In 2022 Malpensa airport was confirmed as the only Italian airport equipped to handle large quantities of all cargo flights, with a market share of 65% of the total cargo transited through Italian airports.

The record growth in freight transported in 2021 more than doubled the number of cargo movements compared to 2019 (+156%) with an average of around 85 movements per day. The considerable increase in movements is related to the growth of express couriers, which mainly operate with short/medium haul aircrafts and have a lower weight/volume ratio than all cargo aircrafts.