A restructuring has taken place within the Schiphol Group in recent months. The Cargo division has been merged with Aviation Marketing. Time to renew acquaintance with Maaike van der Windt who leads the division and Bart Pouwels who is responsible for Cargo.

Maaike van der Windt has over 20 years’ experience in the aviation sector. After 10 years in various positions at Schiphol she left for Brisbane Airport in 2008 to take on several senior management functions in the strategic and aviation areas. Since last year she has been back at the Schiphol Group; since April in the position of Director Aviation Marketing, Cargo and Customer Experience.

The new set-up guarantees that cargo will be robustly represented in the future. Further we see the importance of belly capacity alongside full cargo capacity. Merging cargo with the passenger network and business developments allows us to take advantage of these opportunities. We are also seeing that passengers and belly flows are increasingly being integrated. This set-up can also better facilitate this. Full freighter airlines remain, of course, important for Schiphol and we shall work hard in the coming years to retain and facilitate all our airline customers.

Communication with the cargo community will remain as it was. New developments can be followed via the online newsletter CargoNews and via LinkedIn. The Cargo Café will also continue. In addition Maaike and Bart are active in the various sector councils and the management board.

Ensuring cargo interests
Cargo remains an important element for Schiphol. Our focus lies on improving logistics at and around  Schiphol. We continue to support the community with market-oriented sustainable solutions. These are under the umbrella of the Smart Cargo Mainport Program (SCMP). We will also continue to lobby in The Hague. One of the challenges for Schiphol and its users is to arrive at a new ‘Alders’ agreement and to gain clarity on the development of Schiphol after November 2020. Schiphol will, of course, actively take the interests of both passengers and cargo into these discussions. In order to be able to do this in the best possible way, we regularly consult with the various stakeholder organisations such as EVO-Fenedex, NDL and ACN.

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