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Oct 30, 2008 (newstodate): Swedish trucking and logistics provider, Wiiks Transport AS is upbeat about prospects for an Asian freighter service from Sweden's Luleaa Kallax Airport.
Wiiks Transport is one of five new participants in the venture, Kallax Cargo that is driving the project.
-Our analysis proves that an Asian freighter service from Kallax would immediately benefit exporters in the northernmost regions of Norway, Sweden and Finland, says Per Arne Wiik, Wiik Transport AS general manager.
-Trucking times from cities in these regions to their current nearest international airports would be significantly reduced by 50 or even more percent.
-Like in the case of Uleaaborg in northern Finland where trucking to Kallax, rather than to Helsinki, would cut trucking times from seven to four hours, or in the case of Tromso, northern Norway, where trucking to Kallax, rather than to Oslo, would reduce time spent on the road from 25 to 10 hours. Shorter trucking times means potentials for longer shelf-life for products at the receiver's end of the chain of logistics.
-Reduced trucking times of course lead also to a corresponding reduction in trucking costs. In the case of Uleaaborg, transportation costs would be cut by 50 percent, and in the case of Tromso it is 118 pecent more expensive to truck goods to Oslo than to Kallax, says Mr Wiik.
Mr Wiik refuses to speculate on a launch date for the planned Asian freighter, but newstodate has earlier reported that Cathay Pacific Cargo is expected to start an initial weekly flight to Hong Kong via Luleaa Kallax Airport in the first half of 2009.
Wiiks Transport is one of five new participants in the venture, Kallax Cargo that is driving the project.
-Our analysis proves that an Asian freighter service from Kallax would immediately benefit exporters in the northernmost regions of Norway, Sweden and Finland, says Per Arne Wiik, Wiik Transport AS general manager.
-Trucking times from cities in these regions to their current nearest international airports would be significantly reduced by 50 or even more percent.
-Like in the case of Uleaaborg in northern Finland where trucking to Kallax, rather than to Helsinki, would cut trucking times from seven to four hours, or in the case of Tromso, northern Norway, where trucking to Kallax, rather than to Oslo, would reduce time spent on the road from 25 to 10 hours. Shorter trucking times means potentials for longer shelf-life for products at the receiver's end of the chain of logistics.
-Reduced trucking times of course lead also to a corresponding reduction in trucking costs. In the case of Uleaaborg, transportation costs would be cut by 50 percent, and in the case of Tromso it is 118 pecent more expensive to truck goods to Oslo than to Kallax, says Mr Wiik.
Mr Wiik refuses to speculate on a launch date for the planned Asian freighter, but newstodate has earlier reported that Cathay Pacific Cargo is expected to start an initial weekly flight to Hong Kong via Luleaa Kallax Airport in the first half of 2009.