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Nov 25, 2005 (newstodate): The Finnish CAA and Helsinki Vantaa Airport do not have a specific strategy for air cargo business, focusing rather on the development of passenger traffic.
-Our efforts towards the air cargo industry is primarily to provide space as needed by airlines and other operators, and we have ample space available for future projects between the airport's two main runways. Still, air cargo remains marginal business in our strategic planning, says Matti Koskivaara, Helsinki Vantaa Airport official.
-We thus rely on the business plans by Finnair and other airlines, as well as the integrators, and will support them as they grow their traffic as in the case of Finnair that is expanding fast on its Far Eastern route network.
-As for the reports on a sustained drop in cargo volumes at Helsinki Vantaa, I doubt the validity of the statistics. I am not sure, for instance, if the cargo volumes of DHL and TNT are really included, or reported correctly. It remains my impression that cargo is growing at Helsinki, as is indeed the passenger traffic volumes, he says.
-Our efforts towards the air cargo industry is primarily to provide space as needed by airlines and other operators, and we have ample space available for future projects between the airport's two main runways. Still, air cargo remains marginal business in our strategic planning, says Matti Koskivaara, Helsinki Vantaa Airport official.
-We thus rely on the business plans by Finnair and other airlines, as well as the integrators, and will support them as they grow their traffic as in the case of Finnair that is expanding fast on its Far Eastern route network.
-As for the reports on a sustained drop in cargo volumes at Helsinki Vantaa, I doubt the validity of the statistics. I am not sure, for instance, if the cargo volumes of DHL and TNT are really included, or reported correctly. It remains my impression that cargo is growing at Helsinki, as is indeed the passenger traffic volumes, he says.