The Latvian airline and Riga Airport are joining forces to jointly open a new cargo hub at the airport. The new cargo hangar will be the largest air cargo handling facility in the Baltic States.

Air Baltic won the tender. The current plan is to start construction at the end of 2022 and to finish the hangar by the beginning of 2024. The airline's cargo handling subsidiary is to take over operations. "With the new cargo hub, we can handle more than 30 tons of freight annually," says Air Baltic boss Martin Gauss. 

The new building was necessary because the existing hangar had to give way to the plans for the new Rail Baltica railway connection and will soon be demolished. Rail Baltica is a new rail link under construction that will run from Warsaw in Poland via Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia to Helsinki in Finland.