Cardiff Airport should be excelling in freight. What is holding it back? It can take the heavies, it has upgraded the links to the M4.
 
Cardiff Airport should be excelling in freight. What is holding it back? It can take the heavies, it has upgraded the links to the M4.
May well be lack of warehousing around it or close by but you'd have thought that with depots in Swansea and Avonmouth the airport would've attracted some Amazon flights by now.
 
Does anyone know if CWL has the equipment to offload a 777 freighter? Or would that equipment have to be brought in from elsewhere by Swissport?
 
May well be lack of warehousing around it or close by but you'd have thought that with depots in Swansea and Avonmouth the airport would've attracted some Amazon flights by now.
The Avonmouth Amazon gets quite a few containers each week from the container service that operates into Portbury dock.The same thing happens at Swansea containers are trunked over from Portbury dock. Avonmouth Amazon are doing a lot of work for Swansea as Avonmouth has robots and Swansea not got any.It tells the story that robots are quicker than humans and looks like the way to go.
 
The Avonmouth Amazon gets quite a few containers each week from the container service that operates into Portbury dock.The same thing happens at Swansea containers are trunked over from Portbury dock. Avonmouth Amazon are doing a lot of work for Swansea as Avonmouth has robots and Swansea not got any.It tells the story that robots are quicker than humans and looks like the way to go.
Freight wise Cardiff has the same problem as it does passenger wise. It all gets sucked into England.
It would be interesting to know where those containers are being shipped to.
 
Freight wise Cardiff has the same problem as it does passenger wise. It all gets sucked into England.
It would be interesting to know where those containers are being shipped to.
Most of the containers that Amazon gets delivered each week are mainly China and the Far East in general.They are loaded containers with various goods for Amazon. The return of empty containers are put into a stock yard in Avonmouth or Portbury.All the goods Amazon get delivered to them go out via couriers to customers.
 
Most of the containers that Amazon gets delivered each week are mainly China and the Far East in general.They are loaded containers with various goods for Amazon. The return of empty containers are put into a stock yard in Avonmouth or Portbury.All the goods Amazon get delivered to them go out via couriers to customers.
Its a shame that they can't ship the goods via ports in Wales. If look at Wales direct trading links to the world by sea and air they are quite poor.
 
Bristol/Avonmouth has always been the dominant general cargo port for the Bristol channel. The south Wales ports were built to handle the export of vast quantities of coal. Nowadays, the busiest port in terms of tonnage is Milford Haven thanks to the oil and natural gas industry. Next in order of tonnage is Port Talbot which imports iron and ore and coking coal for the steel works. Newport is probably next followed by Cardiff and Swansea. Barry sees very little traffic .
Since the middle ages, sailing ships from Bristol called at south and west Wales ports and quays bring both goods and passengers. There is a pub on the quay side in Haverfordwest called the Bristol Trader.
 
Its a shame that they can't ship the goods via ports in Wales. If look at Wales direct trading links to the world by sea and air they are quite poor.
As with BRS being situated between the CWL and EXT catchments and benefiting from both, it's mainly down to geographical location.

The Avonmouth/Severnside area with its huge array of warehouses and distribution centres can easily serve much of South Wales and a lot of South West England, as well as the south Midlands and a good deal of the M4 corridor as far as Swindon and even further east, and it's also on the doorstep of one of the major ports in the country (with excellent motorway connections to both docks). The tolls for many years on the Severn crossings were also a hindrance to distribution bases setting up in Wales, especially if areas of England were important parts of an envisaged market.

The same applies with sea freight. The Bristol Port Company's facilites at Avonmouth and Royal Portbury are within 250 km of 67% of the UK population - a higher percentage than any other deep water port according to the company's website.

Since the middle ages, sailing ships from Bristol called at south and west Wales ports and quays bring both goods and passengers. There is a pub on the quay side in Haverfordwest called the Bristol Trader.
The historic pub (closed at the moment but it's grade 2 listed) The Llandoger Trow was buit in 1664 in Bristol's ancient King Street. A trow was a flat-bottomed boat with many built at Llandogo in the lower reaches of the Wye Valley.

The Llandoger Trow is situated near the junction with Welsh Back, a thoroughfare along the Bristol harbourside near Bristol Bridge, so named because much trade was done from there with Wales in centuries past. The pub is reputed to be where Daniel Defoe met a former castaway that inspired the story of Robinson Crusoe and the model for the Admiral Benbow pub in Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island.
 
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/...vvcrLjQqGlajKMyU2XJKfPwikIbw_Gohf7JLfdPUo3PQY
 
Just seen a post on ***Links to other Social Media platforms are not permitted***- saying that there could be another PPE flight due in Saturday evening.
 

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