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Jul 01, 2016 (newstodate): In business since 1962, the Norwegian aircraft broker Aircontact has carved a firm niche and sees sustained growth in 2016.
-Whether measured in number of flights, contracts, requests and revenues, the first half of this year has again performed extremely well, ending around a growth by some 40 percent, says Christian Juul Moller, Aircontact Manager Special Charters ACMI & Cargo.
-As a leading oil & gas nation, Norway, like other countries, has been heavily effected by the downturn in the oil and gas industry, but a rise in seafood export volumes and prices has partly outbalanced the negative effect. And for Aircontact, we have in total had more cargo charters in total.
-Aircontact also benefits from being deeply into many separate segments including civil aviation, leisure, events, military, governmental, passenger and cargo, so even if some segments vary by season or demand we are less exposed to specific downturns.
-In today's environment a main challenge is actually to locate capacity to meet customer requests. In this situation charter rates are up, but thanks to our scope of business and the volume of transactions we are in a fair position to negotiate fair prices on the basis of a strong buying power, to the benefit of our customers.
-We are of course facing competition in our markets, with new entrants popping up now and then. This is only fair, but we are most probably still the single largest provider of aircraft brokering in the region.
-Our focus remains on serving the Nordic markets while we are also engaged in mainly governmental and military contracts in other markets such as Belgium, the UK, Hungary, Czech Republic - and we actually managed seven flights to South Polar stations as well in this year.
-We are now into the slack July period with little flight activity apart from sports arrangements. But our main efforts are already far into planning for 2017, says Mr Juul Moller.
-Whether measured in number of flights, contracts, requests and revenues, the first half of this year has again performed extremely well, ending around a growth by some 40 percent, says Christian Juul Moller, Aircontact Manager Special Charters ACMI & Cargo.
-As a leading oil & gas nation, Norway, like other countries, has been heavily effected by the downturn in the oil and gas industry, but a rise in seafood export volumes and prices has partly outbalanced the negative effect. And for Aircontact, we have in total had more cargo charters in total.
-Aircontact also benefits from being deeply into many separate segments including civil aviation, leisure, events, military, governmental, passenger and cargo, so even if some segments vary by season or demand we are less exposed to specific downturns.
-In today's environment a main challenge is actually to locate capacity to meet customer requests. In this situation charter rates are up, but thanks to our scope of business and the volume of transactions we are in a fair position to negotiate fair prices on the basis of a strong buying power, to the benefit of our customers.
-We are of course facing competition in our markets, with new entrants popping up now and then. This is only fair, but we are most probably still the single largest provider of aircraft brokering in the region.
-Our focus remains on serving the Nordic markets while we are also engaged in mainly governmental and military contracts in other markets such as Belgium, the UK, Hungary, Czech Republic - and we actually managed seven flights to South Polar stations as well in this year.
-We are now into the slack July period with little flight activity apart from sports arrangements. But our main efforts are already far into planning for 2017, says Mr Juul Moller.