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The long term vision is to build

this as a cargo hub, which is
a self-contained facility that

allows our customers the ability

to efficiently do tech stops, but
also make money by helping

them to optimise their payloads

to better meet the needs of their
Sean Dolan
NorthLink Aviation shipping customers.

Tell us why you chose to lead this What is the size of the investment? We plan to make substantial progress with the
project and what is NorthLink Is the project going to be completed warehouse, ideally, having it completed by the
Aviation’s plan for ANC? in phases? end of next year. It is obviously an ambitious
I was fortunate to come to NorthLink after We are developing the project in phases. It is timetable but we have a very experienced
looking at the infrastructure situation at the a fairly substantial project as it is. Right now team that understands how to get these pro-
airport and realizing that there's a tremen- the airport is facing a tremendous need for ad- jects done on a very concise timeframe.
dous opportunity to build new infrastruc- ditional hardstand capacity. So our near term
ture to serve the air cargo community at focus is to build the fuel system, including the Is the warehouse going to be
ANC. But also open up a new commercial transport pipelines to feed the first set of hard- purpose-built to handle a specific
opportunity to make and build ANC’s stands. But, you know, our objective is to get set of air cargo commodities or is it
leadership as a hub for tech stops, besides all the hardstands and the fuel system in 2023. meant for general cargo?
allowing the air cargo community the op-
portunity to really use AMC as a cargo hub.
So first and foremost we're looking to meet
an infrastructure need at the airport, but we
want to build ANC as a cargo hub.

What is the size of the cargo
terminal that you are going to
build? And what are the timelines?
So we have leased 120 acres at the airport for
55 years. We are using a substantial portion  ANC is the fourth busiest air cargo airport in the world
of that to build a facility that will have 11
power-through hardstands. Four additional  Within a 9.5-hour flight of 90% of the industrialized world
hardstands, which will be push back. There
will be a warehouse, which will be approxi-  Critical to the profitability of cargo flights between Asia and the
mately 100,000 square feet, as well as office United States
space adjacent to the warehouse. We are also
going to build a ground support equipment  Airport has run out of space to accommodate air cargo carriers
(GST) facility. And notably, because I think this
is a sector that is really focused on sustainabil-  New infrastructure is needed to sustain current flights and
ity, we are also going to have the only facility support future growth
in Alaska that will fully recover and recycle the
deicing fluid used to deice the plane. Source: northlinkaviation.com

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