CONTINENTAL OPENS CARGO FACILITY AT JFK INTERNATIONAL
Continental Airlines has opened a new $25-million cargo handling facility at New York's JFK International Airport.
The facility, which combined freight operations previously housed in two separate buildings, has more than 54,000 square feet of cargo handling area as well as 8,500 square feet of office space for 100 employees. The facility has 23,000 square feet of paved area for truck staging and customer parking, and employs a Ball Mat system, with floor-level rollers that allow movement of containerized cargo without forklifts.
Twelve daily round-trip 'truck flights' between the new cargo facility and the airline's Newark hub tie the JFK operation into Continental's Asian, European, Latin American and transcontinental network.
'As one of the largest facilities in our system, this new operation will significantly boost the volume of freight we can handle,' said Jack Boisen, Continental Airlines Cargo's vice president.
William R. DeCota, director of aviation for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, said the project was part of a public-private partnership aimed at creating more than 2 million square feet of new cargo space at JFK.