Annual airfreight throughput at Frankfurt International, Germany's largest airport, edged up 1.9 percent in 2007 to 2.1 million metric tons.

An absence of bad weather throughout the year helped achieve the record volume, according to Fraport's executive board chairman Dr. Wilhelm Bender. But the slow growth was due in part to a 1.8 percent decline in airmail over the past twelve months to 95,000 metric tons.

A 2.2 percent surge at the end pushed the total up. A record 182,000 metric tons of air freight came through FRA in December. European traffic rose 4.6 percent while intercontinental traffic was on a slower pace than in earlier months.

The Fraport Group's total cargo volume for the year, including both freight and airmail, increased 2.9 percent to 2.5 million metric tons. In December, cargo tonnage for the group jumped 4.6 percent to 227,000 metric tons.