Heathrow exports are on the rise
Heathrow has listed salmon as one of the main exports in their cargo services indicating that flying fish are definitely a popularity that will remain. Salmon fish was one of the list alongside gold, jet engines and surprisingly raincoats. They all topped the cargo export but salmon was by far the largest with about 50 000 tonnes shipped through Heathrow.
Research also showed that the London airport exports was a whopping 345,575 tonnes of British goods and in price value more than 48 billion pounds worth.
When it comes to trading partners china is of great value. The export to china increases often and up till July 7.6 billion pounds of export goods were to china which is an increase of over a hundred per cent from the year before.
While it is currently behind America in export goods, America being at 14 billion pounds, it is highly expected that within a couple of years it will overtake and become the largest leading export base. That is of course, if current trends continue.
Based on export value four out five countries that hold the highest export trade are from Asia. This shows how important this region is to the export market.
Aside from the large amount of tones exported there were precious and valuable goods that contributed to the high price value of Heathrow export. The metals were worth 26 billion pounds and other jewelry around 3 billion and then diamonds at 800 million. All this annually is impressive for Heathrow.
Engines also played a huge part mostly due to Rolls Royce with many aircraft engines and components passing through Heathrow giving Britain a stable and firm position in the global aerospace industry. Britain’s industry worth in this part is 29 billion pounds a year and this places it second in the list. The previous year saw 3.5bn exports of aircraft engines, 1.9bn in aircraft engine parts and a 1.6bn value of other related components.
Other increasing exports include medical related items such as vaccines and this is mostly due to crises such as Ebola. This crisis saw an increase in human vaccine exports by almost 100 per cent.
Salmon in weight totaled to an export of 46,343 tonnes, a large amount equal to a significant amount of jumbo jets.
Fashion is not excluded from the British export market with 3,640 tonnes of clothes currently being exported and steadily increasing. The biggest increase is with raincoats and overcoats.
