When you handle as many animals as CargoLand (Liège Airport) does, you need to make sure that your facilities are always the best they possibly can be. To safeguard an animal’s health and safety as well as keep an eye on regulations, all creatures travelling through the airport must undergo veterinary inspection. Those travelling through CargoLand now get to enjoy its fully renovated Vet Center. Recently inaugurated, the facility offers areas for sanitary inspection and quarantine of live animals (AVI) transiting through the airport. “The Vet Center forms a critical control point within CargoLand by LGG’s live animal logistics chain, ensuring that every animal entering or leaving LGG complies fully with animal health and biosecurity regulations. The renovated Vet Center now features fully equipped inspection zones and an isolated quarantine area, enabling veterinarians [from the veterinary services of the Belgian Federal Agency for the Safety of the Food Chain (AFSCA)] to manage animals requiring observation or additional testing without interrupting ongoing operations. This configuration allows parallel processing of multiple consignments while maintaining strict biosecurity and operational continuity,” the release states.
Though most well-known for its Horse Inn, the airport’s Vet Center can accommodate many different species and offers sanitary inspections, health status checks, documentation control and transport condition assessments. Last year, it handled 3,766 horses and other equids, as well as all kinds of ornamental fish, insects, and small mammals.
Frédéric Brun, Head of Commercial Cargo & Logistics at CargoLand by LGG, explained: “The renovation of the Vet Center was driven by very concrete sanitary and operational realities. We are handling increasing volumes and more complex live animal movements. This upgraded infrastructure enables us to strengthen veterinary control capacity and maintain the highest standards of animal health and welfare.”
