A massive piece of machinery that can produce up to 30 million doses of COVID vaccine per month, and help alleviate production bottlenecks, landed Saturday at Chicago Rockford International Airport on a specialized cargo jet.
The flight was operated by Russian all-cargo carrier Volga-Dnepr Airlines, Zachary Oakley, deputy director of operations and planning at the Greater Rockford Airport Authority, confirmed.
The vaccine filling machine and isolator were delivered to a plant being built by...
The e-commerce juggernaut and crowded international gateways are making many secondary airports attractive alternatives for freight transport providers, but few are growing like Chicago Rockford International Airport.
Located about 70 miles northwest of Chicago’s O’Hare Airport, Rockford Airport (RFD) last year increased cargo throughput by 15% to a record 2.7 billion tons of cargo landed weight (aircraft plus payload) and recently began a $43 million infrastructure expansion to meet escalating...
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Secondary airports geared toward cargo are proving their value during the coronavirus pandemic as a faster alternative for delivering goods.
Airports outside major metro areas have always had a speed advantage over international passenger gateways such as Chicago O’Hare and New York’s JFK airport. An onslaught of freighter aircraft full of medical supplies for the COVID response has magnified congestion at those hubs and forced shippers to consider other options.
Good infrastructure, customer...
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