LOCATION

Leeds Bradford Airport

LBA

61st

IMPORT VALUE RANK 2018

£42M

IMPORT VALUE 2018

52nd

EXPORT VALUE RANK 2018

£55M

EXPORT VALUE 2018

INDICATIVE PRICE

~ £1.00-2.00 per pallet

Leeds Bradford Airport (IATA: LBA,ICAO: EGNM) is located at Yeadon, in the City of Leeds Metropolitan District in West Yorkshire, England, 6 nautical miles (11km; 6.9mi) northwest of Leeds city centre itself. It was opened in October 1931 as Yeadon Aerodrome, and is still often referred to as Yeadon Airport by locals. It serves the cities of Leeds and Bradford, as well as the wider Yorkshire region including the cities of York and Wakefield, and the District of Harrogate, and is the largest airport within Yorkshire. The airport was in public ownership until May 2007, when it was sold for £145.5million to Bridgepoint Capital.

TOP 10 IMPORTED COMMODITIES BY VALUE 2018

Rank Description Total
1 Automatic data-processing machines and units thereof; magnetic or optical readers, machines for transcribing data onto data media in coded form and machines for processing such data, n.e.s. more info £5.5M
2 Thermionic, cold cathode or photo-cathode valves and tubes (e.g., vacuum or vapour or gas-filled valves and tubes, mercury arc rectifying valves and tubes, cathode-ray tubes, television camera tubes); diodes, transistors and similar semiconductor devices; photosensitive semiconductor devices; light-emitting diodes; mounted piezoelectric crystals; electronic integrated circuits and microassembles; parts thereof more info £4.8M
3 Wool and other animal hair (including wool tops) more info £3.6M
4 Manufactures of base metal, n.e.s. more info £3.5M
5 Telecommunications equipment, n.e.s., and parts, n.e.s., and accessories of apparatus falling within division 76 more info £2.9M
6 Measuring, checking, analysing and controlling instruments and apparatus, n.e.s. more info £1.7M
7 Parts and accessories (other than covers, carrying cases and the like) suitable for use solely or principally with machines falling withing groups 751 and 752 more info £1.5M
8 Textile yarn more info £1.4M
9 Tools for use in the hand or in machines more info £1.1M
10 Articles of rubber, n.e.s. more info £960K

TOP 10 EXPORTED COMMODITIES BY VALUE 2018

Rank Description Total
1 Medicaments (including veterinary medicaments) more info £8.9M
2 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 £7.9M
3 Parts, n.e.s., and accessories suitable for use solely or principally with the machines falling within groups 731 and 733 (including work or tool holders, self-opening die-heads, dividing heads and other special attachments for machine tools); tool holders for any type of tool for working in the hand more info £4.1M
4 Other textile fabrics, woven more info £3M
5 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 £1.8M
6 Pumps (other than pumps for liquids), air or other gas compressors and fans; ventilating or recycling hoods incorporating a fan, whether or not fitted with filters; centrifuges; filtering or purifying apparatus; parts thereof more info £1.6M
7 Essential oils, perfume and flavour materials more info £1.2M
8 Electrical machinery and apparatus, n.e.s. more info £1.2M
9 Electric power machinery (other than rotating electric plant of group 716) and parts thereof more info £1M
10 Wool and other animal hair (including wool tops) more info £1M