There are plans to increase the capacity of the airport to 10 million passengers in the long term and turn the airport into a cargo hub.
Upington Airport serves as an international cargo hub.
Terminal 1 was opened on October 1, 1999 along with a 4000m runway and including a cargo hub.
It is also a major Central Asian cargo hub.
But in the past decade Kennedy's status as a cargo hub has steadily eroded.
The study, which covered the 30 most congested airports plus Memphis, a cargo hub, also showed that fewer than half expected to build more runways.
A major cargo hub, it was the second busiest UK airport for freight traffic in 2012.
Its cargo hub would shift from Wilmington to Louisville.
Cologne Bonn Airport is a major cargo hub in the world.
Plans to make that airport a regional cargo hub, with an "air cargo village" by 2004 appear to have failed.