LOCATION

Belfast International Airport

BFS

38th

IMPORT VALUE RANK 2018

£420M

IMPORT VALUE 2018

32nd

EXPORT VALUE RANK 2018

£360M

EXPORT VALUE 2018

INDICATIVE PRICE

Insufficient data for an indicative price

Belfast International Airport (IATA: BFS, ICAO: EGAA) lies 13.2 miles (21.3 km) northwest of Belfast. It was formerly known and is still referred to as Aldergrove Airport, after the nearby village of Aldergrove, which lies immediately to the west. Nearly 4.4 million passengers travelled through the airport in 2015, a 9% increase compared with 2014. Belfast International is the busiest airport in Northern Ireland and the second busiest airport on the island of Ireland in terms of passenger numbers after Dublin Airport and is followed by Belfast-City, Cork and Shannon.

The area near the airport is well served for industrial warehouse space. Stowga have a number of sites in Antrim and along the M2 to Newtonabbey and around the outskirts of Belfast. There are a couple of BRC accredited sites along the M2 if you need a warehouse to store food and drink. Modern, racked warehouses can be found in good supply for pallet storage, particulalrly around the docks in Belfast.

There are also a number of MHRA warehouse sites in and around Belfast, and nearby in Lisburn, Comber and Whiteabbey.

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TOP 10 IMPORTED COMMODITIES BY VALUE 2018

Rank Description Total
1 Furniture and parts thereof; bedding, mattresses, mattress supports, cushions and similar stuffed furnishings more info £69M
2 Medicinal and pharmaceutical products, other than medicaments of group 542 more info £42M
3 Monitors and projectors, not incorporating television reception apparatus; reception apparatus for television, whether or not incorporating radio-broadcast receivers or sound or video recording or reproducing apparatus more info £29M
4 Electrical apparatus for switching or protecting electrical circuits or for making connections to or in electrical circuits (e.g., switches, relays, fuses, lightning arresters, voltage limiters, surge suppressors, plugs and sockets, lamp-holders and junction boxes); electrical resistors (including rheostats and potentiometers), other than heating resistors; printed circuits; boards, panels (including numerical control panels), consoles, desks, cabinets and other bases, equipped with two or more apparatus for switching, protecting or for making connections to or in electrical circuits, for electric control or the distribution of electricity (excluding swithching apparatus of subgroup 764.1) more info £27M
5 Other machinery and equipment specialized for particular industries; parts thereof, n.e.s. more info £23M
6 Plates, sheets, film, foil and strip, of plastics more info £20M
7 Medicaments (including veterinary medicaments) more info £18M
8 Engines and motors, non-electric (other than those of groups 712, 713 and 718); parts, n.e.s., of these engines and motors more info £13M
9 Aircraft and associated equipment; spacecraft (including satellites) and spacecraft launch vehicles; parts thereof more info £13M
10 Equipment for distributing electricity, n.e.s. more info £13M

TOP 10 EXPORTED COMMODITIES BY VALUE 2018

Rank Description Total
1 Furniture and parts thereof; bedding, mattresses, mattress supports, cushions and similar stuffed furnishings more info £110M
2 Measuring, checking, analysing and controlling instruments and apparatus, n.e.s. more info £63M
3 Aircraft and associated equipment; spacecraft (including satellites) and spacecraft launch vehicles; parts thereof more info £58M
4 Medicaments (including veterinary medicaments) more info £29M
5 Miscellaneous chemical products, n.e.s. more info £25M
6 Other machinery and equipment specialized for particular industries; parts thereof, n.e.s. more info £11M
7 Taps, cocks, valves and similar appliances for pipes, boiler shells, tanks, vats or the like, including pressure-reducing valves and thermostatically controlled valves more info £10M
8 Organo-inorganic compounds, heterocyclic compounds, nucleic acids and their salts, and sulphonamides more info £7M
9 Instruments and appliances, n.e.s., for medical, surgical, dental or veterinary purposes more info £4.8M
10 Electrical machinery and apparatus, n.e.s. more info £4.4M