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aeropuerto de mercancías

English translation: freight/cargo airport

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Spanish term or phrase:aeropuerto de mercancías
English translation:freight/cargo airport
Entered by: Lydia De Jorge

02:22 Sep 28, 2011
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Marketing - Tourism & Travel
Spanish term or phrase: aeropuerto de mercancías
Aeropuertos: Foronda (Aeropuerto de mercancías, Vitoria): Está a 10 kilómetros de Vitoria por la N622. Continuar en Portal de Foronda, hasta tomar la rotonda.

Is this just a regular commercial airport? TIA!
Lydia De Jorge
United States
Local time: 06:59
freight airport
Explanation:
freight airport
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Fatima Nunez
Spain
Local time: 13:59
Grading comment
It appears both answers are valid but yours came in first...wish I could award both.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
5 +8freight airport
Fatima Nunez
5 +8cargo airport
Matthew Madd (X)


  

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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +8
freight airport


Explanation:
freight airport

Fatima Nunez
Spain
Local time: 13:59
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
It appears both answers are valid but yours came in first...wish I could award both.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Jairo Payan: De acuerdo, es un aeropuerto ahora exclusivo para carga http://www.via.com.es/castellano/empresas/aeropuerto/infraes... http://www.aena-aeropuertos.es/csee/Satellite/Aeropuerto-Vit...
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agree  Ross Andrew Parker: It looks like this is widely used.
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agree  Stefano Nicola D'Amato (X): My first guess was "cargo airport" since I have worked in the airline industry for more than five years. I searched, and the English version of Aena's website lists Vitoria as a "freight airport":
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agree  Rick Larg: However, 'cargo airport' is also correct.
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agree  Antoni Morey i Pasqual
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agree  Isamar
5 hrs
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agree  Neil Ashby
5 hrs
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agree  AllegroTrans
15 hrs
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +8
cargo airport


Explanation:
cargo airport gets more google hits




    Reference: http://www.faa.gov/airports/planning_capacity/passenger_allc...
Matthew Madd (X)
Japan
Local time: 20:59
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Ventnai
16 mins
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agree  FVS (X): Yes, as in "Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) is the eleventh busiest cargo airport in .." which is how LAX describes itself. I originally thought the term would be more UK but it seems not. See http://www.airport-la.com/info/cargo.html
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agree  Neil Ashby
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agree  Hartley Moorhouse: I agree 'cargo airport' is the more common collocation. It comes up on the British National Corpus (see http://bnc.bl.uk/saraWeb.php?qy=cargo airport) whereas 'freight airport' doesn't.
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agree  Charles Davis: I agree. What Aena chooses to call it is not decisive.
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agree  James A. Walsh: I'll second Charles' findings about AENA; I delivered a job directly for them this week, and went with "cargo" over "freight" based on the amount of usage I found of the former over the latter (although it's like 6 of one and half a dozen of the other)
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agree  neilmac: I prefer this, although "freight" is correct too. And ditto the AENA comments.
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agree  AllegroTrans
11 hrs
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