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May 3, 2006 (newstodate): The Swedish Orebro Airport, today inaugurating new passenger facilities to cope with increasing charter passenger traffic, is also Sweden's fourth largest airport in cargo volumes.
-In 2005 the airport generated a total of 16,200 tonnes of air cargo, and provided current trends continue we will land about 24,000 tonnes of cargo in 2006, says Kjell-Aake Westin, Orebro Airport CEO.
-Besides our regular customers including TNT and Swedish in-night express cargo company Nordic Solution, we are seeing much ad-hoc IL-76 and AN-124 freighter traffic.
-Ericsson's charter cargo traffic is a main driver, but military charters relating to UN peace-keeping actitivites also weigh heavily in our statistics, says mr Westin.
-So far the existing infrastructure has been sufficient to cater to this strong cargo growth, but we are of course keen to ensure that facilities match our customers' needs and may decide to expand if warranted by continued growth.
According to mr Westin, Orebro Airport is now one of the options for the future location of a 60,000 sq m warehouse for the Swedish Army that plans to concentrate existing smaller depots and warehouses in mid-Sweden into a single large-scale logistics center.
-We expect a decision to be reached before this summer, and if we succeed in landing this project we will even build a railway line to the airport to facilitate movements of the military shipments, he says.
-In 2005 the airport generated a total of 16,200 tonnes of air cargo, and provided current trends continue we will land about 24,000 tonnes of cargo in 2006, says Kjell-Aake Westin, Orebro Airport CEO.
-Besides our regular customers including TNT and Swedish in-night express cargo company Nordic Solution, we are seeing much ad-hoc IL-76 and AN-124 freighter traffic.
-Ericsson's charter cargo traffic is a main driver, but military charters relating to UN peace-keeping actitivites also weigh heavily in our statistics, says mr Westin.
-So far the existing infrastructure has been sufficient to cater to this strong cargo growth, but we are of course keen to ensure that facilities match our customers' needs and may decide to expand if warranted by continued growth.
According to mr Westin, Orebro Airport is now one of the options for the future location of a 60,000 sq m warehouse for the Swedish Army that plans to concentrate existing smaller depots and warehouses in mid-Sweden into a single large-scale logistics center.
-We expect a decision to be reached before this summer, and if we succeed in landing this project we will even build a railway line to the airport to facilitate movements of the military shipments, he says.