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Dec 5, 2005 (newstodate): LFV, the Swedish CAA, is intensifying its focus on air cargo and pressing hard to facilitate growth at all airports with air cargo business.
-Stockholm Arlanda, Gothenburg Landvetter and Malmoe Sturup Airport are currently the main airports for cargo traffic, but we will definitely go anywhere customers might need us, says Bjorn Ragnebrink, LFV director air cargo development from August 15, 2005.
-Gothenburg Landvetter is one airport that has been driving its cargo business very succesfully, although cargo volumes are now in a downturn after Polar Air Cargo's decision to relocate traffic to Malmoe Sturup, followed by the relocation of a new Lufthansa Cargo, Japan Airlines freighter service to Oslo, operating to Nagoya, Japan.
-But even so, we will see the start of a new 2-3,000 sq m cargo terminal building project early next year to meet the immediate requirements of one existing customer. And we will of course make an overall appraisal of the situation to see if this is not the time to grow facilities there for other customers as well within a unified plan.
-Plans at Gothenburg are not to tear any of the existing facilities, but rather expand them to provide more space and business potentials, he says.
In addition to current planning of new cargo terminals at Stockholm Arlanda, new facilities at Malmoe Sturup may also be considered.
-Stockholm Arlanda, Gothenburg Landvetter and Malmoe Sturup Airport are currently the main airports for cargo traffic, but we will definitely go anywhere customers might need us, says Bjorn Ragnebrink, LFV director air cargo development from August 15, 2005.
-Gothenburg Landvetter is one airport that has been driving its cargo business very succesfully, although cargo volumes are now in a downturn after Polar Air Cargo's decision to relocate traffic to Malmoe Sturup, followed by the relocation of a new Lufthansa Cargo, Japan Airlines freighter service to Oslo, operating to Nagoya, Japan.
-But even so, we will see the start of a new 2-3,000 sq m cargo terminal building project early next year to meet the immediate requirements of one existing customer. And we will of course make an overall appraisal of the situation to see if this is not the time to grow facilities there for other customers as well within a unified plan.
-Plans at Gothenburg are not to tear any of the existing facilities, but rather expand them to provide more space and business potentials, he says.
In addition to current planning of new cargo terminals at Stockholm Arlanda, new facilities at Malmoe Sturup may also be considered.