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Nov 9, 2005 (newstodate): Lack of reliable cargo statistics is still haunting Stockholm Arlanda that remains unable to prove its performance.
-According to the statistics now available we are seeeing cargo volumes in a sustained drop, but I seriously doubt this is the case, says Karsten Bjarbo, LFV Stockholm Arlanda cargo manager.
-When we speak to parties in the cargo community and watch the actual activity I am convinced that rather than continuing its decline, air cargo volumes are on the rise. But we cannot get the correct figures, so the statistics remain rather negative.
-The solution is developing a new statistics reporting system, and we do have a new system under trial. What we need is to find out how to automatically transfer the data from the handling companies directly into the system in a unified way. And this problem has still not been solved.
-Earlier we could lean on the figures reported by CASS, but the importance of CASS in the Swedish market has declined from earlier when cargo on IATA carriers constituted some 60-70 percent of the totals, while it is now, according to many observers, rather down below 50 percent. Also extensive trucking is blurring the picture.
-Anyhow, EU will require all airports to provide concise data on airfreight from January 1, 2006, so I am confident that we will soon have solved these snags and obtained a valid picture of air cargo at Stockholm Arlanda, he says.
During the period January-October, 2005, Stockholm Arlanda Airport reportedly generated a total of 49,746 tonnes of airfreight, down 21.6 percent on last year.
-According to the statistics now available we are seeeing cargo volumes in a sustained drop, but I seriously doubt this is the case, says Karsten Bjarbo, LFV Stockholm Arlanda cargo manager.
-When we speak to parties in the cargo community and watch the actual activity I am convinced that rather than continuing its decline, air cargo volumes are on the rise. But we cannot get the correct figures, so the statistics remain rather negative.
-The solution is developing a new statistics reporting system, and we do have a new system under trial. What we need is to find out how to automatically transfer the data from the handling companies directly into the system in a unified way. And this problem has still not been solved.
-Earlier we could lean on the figures reported by CASS, but the importance of CASS in the Swedish market has declined from earlier when cargo on IATA carriers constituted some 60-70 percent of the totals, while it is now, according to many observers, rather down below 50 percent. Also extensive trucking is blurring the picture.
-Anyhow, EU will require all airports to provide concise data on airfreight from January 1, 2006, so I am confident that we will soon have solved these snags and obtained a valid picture of air cargo at Stockholm Arlanda, he says.
During the period January-October, 2005, Stockholm Arlanda Airport reportedly generated a total of 49,746 tonnes of airfreight, down 21.6 percent on last year.