Publicación:

Importancia de la operación de carga en el área de influencia del Aeropuerto Internacional Matecaña de la Ciudad de Pereira.

Resumen

The main objective of this research project is to establish the importance of the freight operation in the Matecaña International Airport influence area. In order to execute the project and be able to approach the subject, the application of a series of interviews with the responsibles of those companies dedicated to the freight operation at the airport was necesary, with the purpose of identifying key factors that define the importance of this activity and simultaneously can indicate if their capabilities are being used in an appropiate manner by the region's entrepeneurs and producers. The factors taken into account were: freight caracterization, freight's volume and weight, typology of both the goods as the technology, national and international destinations and it's source, estatistical facts and data from both the freight companies as those that regulate and control this activity, and other relevant variables that took place in the research process. All these to reveal the present tendencies of the sector, allowing to indicate the real potential of the air freight operation and so to dinamize the region's economy.