Key figures and air-cargo statistics
Key figures
In 2010, the Paris-Charles de Gaulle and Paris-Orly airports handled a total of 2.5 million tonnes of cargo and mail. These figures make Paris the no. 1 in Europe and the sixth worldwide.
- 2,501,685 tonnes of cargo and mail for the Paris-Charles de Gaulle and Paris- Orly airports in 2010
- 3.5 million tonnes: annual cargo handling capacity for Paris-Charles de Gaulle:
- 42,000 jobs are directly generated by air cargo in the départements close to Roissy 100 000 €
- €100,000: the average value of a tonne of air-cargo
- 30%: the value-based percentage of air cargo in French exports