Cargo business booming at area airport

Volume has doubled since 2015 at Tampa International.

  • By Business Observer Staff
  • | 3:17 p.m. September 21, 2018
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Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons/Capwatts86.
Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons/Capwatts86.
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TAMPA — The arrival of Amazon in 2015 and UPS in 2017 has given Tampa International Airport’s cargo business a jolt.

According to statements posted on the airport’s website, cargo volume at TPA has doubled in three years, and the cargo business now employs more than 850 people.

 

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