Liege Airport Digitizes Every Refuel as Cargo Volumes Pass 1 Million Tons

Fuel farm, dispatch, and into-plane fueling at Europe’s leading full-freighter hub now run on one live system, marking the start of a 15-year partnership

Liege Airport has gone live with i6 Group’s digital fuel management technology across its entire fuel operation. As the airport’s sole fuel storage and into-plane provider, Liege Airport now runs every refuel, from tank to wing, on a single real-time system.

Liege Airport is a critical node in the global air cargo network and a key gateway for logistics integrators and e-commerce operators moving freight through Europe. Cargo fueling is different. Uplifts are larger, rotations run around the clock, and a missed reading or delayed truck has a knock-on effect across the network. Liege Airport needed a fuel operation that could keep pace with that.

In 2025, Liege Airport handled more than 1.3 million tons of freight across 29,000 cargo flights, making it Europe’s fifth-largest cargo airport and its leading full-freighter hub. It also recorded the fastest growth of any of Europe’s 10 largest cargo airports. Its 56 airline customers, including FedEx, Emirates SkyCargo, Qatar Airways Cargo, and ASL Airlines Belgium, connect Europe with Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Every one of those aircraft is now fueled through i6 technology.

Refuelers work from mobile devices linked directly to the meters. Mandatory checks are built into every stage of the process. Every movement, from stock in the tanks to fuel in the aircraft, is captured digitally and fully traceable.

The deployment was configured hand in hand with Liege Airport’s own teams and built around how the airport operates. It’s also connected to the airport’s wider systems, so fuel data flows straight into the rest of the business rather than sitting in a silo.

“This new tool allows us to digitize all of our processes and gain a real-time view of operations, from fuel requests to refueling and inventory management. Teams on the ground now have a mobile solution directly connected to the meters, which streamlines communication with dispatch, improves traceability, and reduces human error. Mandatory checks are also integrated into the system and validated by the operator at each stage. It’s a professional solution, already in use internationally within our industry, that will also support our future developments, particularly supplies by barge.”
Yves Roebroeck, Fuel Farm Manager, Liege Airport

For Liege Airport, go-live is a foundation rather than a finish line. Cleaner, better-structured fuel data now feeds directly into the airport’s wider digital strategy.

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“This project is not simply about replacing an application. By modernizing our applications, we are also modernizing our application architecture and the way we work, in particular through increased automation and improved data exchange between different applications. This modernization will also enable us to improve data quality. More reliable and better-structured data will then support our data strategy and help us take full advantage of it, particularly to conduct better analyses and develop more predictive capabilities. The goal is to create a more modern, better-integrated, and more scalable environment so that our applications can work together more effectively in the future.”
Jamy Bagheri, Head of Digital, Liege Airport

“Cargo doesn’t wait. The fuel has to be right, on time, and accounted for, every single time. What’s gone live here puts the fuel farm, the refuelers, and the airport’s wider systems on the same live picture, and it was built side by side with Yves, Jamy, and their teams. That’s what partnership means to us. This is a 15-year commitment, and Liege Airport is already setting the pace for connected fuel operations in air cargo.”
Alex Mattos, CEO, i6 Group

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