# Brest Airport (BQT)

> Brest, BY · IATA: BQT · ICAO: UMBB · Medium Airport

## Quick Facts

| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| IATA | `BQT` |
| ICAO | `UMBB` |
| City | Brest |
| Country | BY |
| Type | Medium Airport |
| Elevation | 143 m |
| Cargo | ❌ |
| GPS | 52.10830, 23.89810 |

## Description

Brest matters to logistics for its railway, not its runway. Brest Airport (IATA: BQT, ICAO: UMBB) in the far west of Belarus handles no air cargo and offers scheduled passenger service only to Moscow Sheremetyevo and Saint Petersburg, both flown by Belavia; Western sanctions have left traffic confined to Russian and CIS destinations, and there is no freight terminal, no freighter service and no air-cargo customs facility on site. A short distance away, the Brest–Małaszewicze rail crossing into Poland is the principal gateway for China–Europe rail freight, taking an estimated 85 to 90 percent of those trains into the EU. Because broad gauge (1,520 mm) meets European standard gauge (1,435 mm) there, every container must be transshipped or every wagon regauged — a bottleneck that has stranded more than a hundred trains during brief border closures; a new multimodal terminal on the Polish side was scheduled for completion in June 2026. Shippers with genuine air freight for western Belarus route via Minsk (MSQ, some 330 km east) or, depending on sanctions and the customs status of the goods, via Warsaw (WAW) or Lublin (LUZ) on the EU side.

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