Serving the PHARMA MARKET
Serving the PHARMA MARKET Written by Nye Longman Produced by Richard Durrant
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DUS Cargo is 100 percent owned by Düsseldorf Airport
Situated in a major economic growth area at the heart of Europe, DUS Cargo is exploiting opportunities to offer its clients an even wider range of services 4
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usseldorf Airport Cargo annually handles >114,000 tons of cargo and has invested €3 million in a new temperature-controlled warehouse facility to meet the ever-growing demands of the pharmaceutical industry. The company, which is owned 100 percent by Düsseldorf Airport, is also set to become one of the first cargo companies to attain IATA’s (International Air Transport Association) accreditation for the specialised handling of pharma products, a goal it hopes to achieve by early 2016.
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190 Thomas Schürmann, Head of Sales and Marketing at Düsseldorf Airport Cargo says: “We currently handle 25 airlines most of which are for full handling contracts and therefore we try to offer a wide range of services to airline clients to enable them to ship all kinds of commodities in and out of the airport. “A very big project has been establishing the DUS Pharma Centre which has been equipped with special temperature controlled storage facilities. We have built 23 individual cells where
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and the escalating pharmaceuticals business. In 2014, pharma exports were worth a total of €5.5 billion to the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, in which Düsseldorf is located. Imports to the state amounted to €4.7 billion representing 12 percent of the pharma trade in Germany. “In the past few years we have seen huge growth in pharma imports with products mainly coming from the US, but also exports too, and we wanted to be in a position to offer our clients the biggest range of commodities hence the investment in DUS Pharma Centre,” he says. The main countries for pharmaceuticals exports from North Rhine-Westphalia are the US (12.5 percent of all goods); UK (7.7 percent); China (7.1 percent); Japan (five percent) while on the imports side some of the biggest countries sending goods are the US (9.5 percent); China (2.8 percent); and India (two percent).
“In 2013, it was rebranded Dusseldorf Airport Cargo to enable it to be more easily recognised as being part of the airport” – Thomas Schürmann, DUS Sales and
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DUSSELDORF AIRPORT CARGO temperatures can be set at a range of between two and 25ºC in order to safeguard pharma products.”
Düsseldorf is ranked among the top 10 of the world’s largest economic regions
Growth region Situated at the centre of Europe, the region around Düsseldorf is ranked among the top 10 of the world’s largest economic regions. More than 18 million people live within a radius of 100 kilometres. It is also the heartland for numerous major international companies along with a wealth of medium-sized enterprises thus making its airport a major hub for the export and import of goods. DUS offers a total of 12,650 square metres of storage facilities and has the capability to handle a wide range of cargo including
Sektion / section 1 2 x 26 m2 3 x 13 m2 5 Kühlzellen/ cooling cells 2° - 25° C/ 35,6° - 77° F
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segregated areas for dangerous goods, which are divided into three areas. There are also two dangerous goods areas and a third one for radioactive material. “The only thing we are unable to handle is live animals because there are no facilities at the airport and no approval from the Veterinary Association,” says Schürmann. Exports and imports Because of its proximity to such a vibrant economic area where there is a lot of manufacturing, DUS Cargo handles a wide variety of goods including textiles, electronics and foodstuffs, but its three largest product areas are automotive parts for car manufacturers, machinery
DUS Pharma Center
“We currently handle 25 airlines most of which are for full handling contracts and therefore we try to offer a wide range of services to airline clients to enable them to ship all kinds of commodities in and out of the airport” – Thomas Schürmann, DUS Sales and Marketing Director
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16m Euro The amount of revenue generated by Dusseldorf Airport Cargo
Component of success The automotive parts business has grown from out of the success of German car manufacturers such as Volkswagen, BMW, Audi and Porsche. “Most of the major car manufacturers are in the South but we have a lot of local suppliers located near Düsseldorf and they send spare parts equipment and components all over the world,” says Schürmann. Established in 2001 following the German government’s privatisation process of Düsseldorf Airport, the cargo company was originally named Düsseldorf Cargo Logistics. In 2013, it was rebranded Dusseldorf Airport Cargo to enable it to be more easily recognised as being part of the airport. Today, DUS Cargo serves 25 airlines including Emirates, Lufthansa, American Airlines, Airlines, and Turkish Airlines, Air Berlin, Etihad and Mahn Air. Exacting standards Training and retaining the company’s 190 staff is an important part of its operations and keeping employees up to date with the latest
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industry standards is regarded as paramount. “When we talk about dangerous goods, for example, management and staff are trained to meet regulations issued by IATA,” explains Schürmann. “As with the new certification for pharma products we decided to go-ahead with it while many airports are still just in the early discussion stages. “We decided to go for it because we strongly believe that in the future it will become an industry standard.” Whatever is happening in the global economy impacts DUS Cargo’s business and it has little control over what the markets are doing, nonetheless the company constantly endeavours to stay at the top of its game. “It has been a challenging year and we are facing volatile volumes in the industry particularly with China’s decline in growth. However, trade is getting a bit better now,” concludes Schürmann.
DUS Cargo serves 25 airlines including Emirates, Lufthansa, American Airlines, Airlines, and Turkish Airlines, Air Berlin, Etihad, Mahn Air
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DUSSELDORF AIRPORT CARGO Eingang D, 3. Etage, FrachtstraĂ&#x;e 26, Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany 40474 Tel. 0049 211 421 2721 Fax. 0049 211 421 2729 cargo@dus.com www.dus-cargo.com