Tony Clayton, president of the Jefferson City-based Clayton Agri-Marketing Inc. who has more than 25 years of experience in exporting livestock, met with Lambert officials about getting a cargo system in place in St. Louis.

Most of his livestock shipments by air leave from Chicago. He has pigs that could fly to Korea at the end of April, and pigs headed to China in June. Shipments to Central and South America leave from Miami.

“It’s going to open up some opportunity,” Clayton said, but it will be a slow-developing project, and St. Louis must find ways to attract the cargo planes that call Chicago home.

The airport also is making plans for human passengers, inside and outside the terminals.

It is out of hangar space, and the airport is working on agreements to add a few new corporate hangars, Hamm-Niebruegge said.

“It’s a good source of revenue for us. We’re just the landlords,” she said. And the airport sees other benefits from more hangars, such as in fuel sales.