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Jul 4, 2006 (newstodate): In its recent press release on the formation of its separation of cargo handling into a new, independent company Spirit, SAS Cargo has created some confusion in the market as to its underlying intentions.
-The initiative is mainly done to reduce the increasing amount of Scandinavian air cargo that is trucked to airports south of Scandinavia every day and flown out of there, the crucial lines in the release read.
-We are of course fully dedicated to serving our non-SAS airline customers with high standards of efficient and neutral cargo handling, and we are definitely not declaring war on airline customers that truck their cargo down to their hubs after handling at Spirit's Scandinavian terminals, says Kenneth Marx, SAS president and CEO.
-What we intended to say is that setting our cargo handling free as an independent company will enable it to boost efficiency and fine-tune its core competences, which will lead to improved lead-times significantly benefiting the fast flow of shipments through the terminals.
-This will benefit all of its customers, including SAS Cargo that will capitalise on this to strengthen the marketing of our ex-Scandinavia freighter services including the flights to Hong Kong.
-With enhanced lead-times we will convince the market that much of the freight now leaving Scandinavia for freighter uplift from continental airports can actually fly directly out of Scandinavia thanks to these service improvements now at hand.
-We will definitely take to the offensive in the market to compete with carriers like KLM, Air France, and British Airways to incrase the proportion of airfreight being flown, rather than trucked out of Scandinavia, says Mr Marx.
-The initiative is mainly done to reduce the increasing amount of Scandinavian air cargo that is trucked to airports south of Scandinavia every day and flown out of there, the crucial lines in the release read.
-We are of course fully dedicated to serving our non-SAS airline customers with high standards of efficient and neutral cargo handling, and we are definitely not declaring war on airline customers that truck their cargo down to their hubs after handling at Spirit's Scandinavian terminals, says Kenneth Marx, SAS president and CEO.
-What we intended to say is that setting our cargo handling free as an independent company will enable it to boost efficiency and fine-tune its core competences, which will lead to improved lead-times significantly benefiting the fast flow of shipments through the terminals.
-This will benefit all of its customers, including SAS Cargo that will capitalise on this to strengthen the marketing of our ex-Scandinavia freighter services including the flights to Hong Kong.
-With enhanced lead-times we will convince the market that much of the freight now leaving Scandinavia for freighter uplift from continental airports can actually fly directly out of Scandinavia thanks to these service improvements now at hand.
-We will definitely take to the offensive in the market to compete with carriers like KLM, Air France, and British Airways to incrase the proportion of airfreight being flown, rather than trucked out of Scandinavia, says Mr Marx.