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Jan 6, 2009 (newstodate): While the decision to close down airfreight activities at Sweden's Stockholm Skavsta Airport has been taken, the cut-over date has yet to be finalised.
-Unions were informed at a meeting between Christmas and New Year, and we will meet this week to continue the dialogue about the process to phase out airfreight handling, says Dot Gade Kulovuori, Stockholm Skavsta Airport manager.
-Talks will also be continued with our existing customer portfolio about how to end our contracts with them, and all obligations will of course be dutifully honoured.
-We have had no scheduled cargo traffic for quite some years now, and the volume of freighter charter operations has declined significantly as well. While there is still some palletising and airfreight trucking, revenues do not warrant a continuation of the business. We will fall short of earlier years' volumes and did not even come close to 10,000 tonnes in 2008.
-We have been in talks with other providers concerning a possible sale of the cargo handling business, and while we were initially met with interest the crisis developing during 2008 and the sharp over-all drop in Sweden's air cargo volumes made potential buyers retreat.
-We are therefore forced to the decision to stop airfreight handling, and the decision will take effect when all obligations have been fulfilled, says Ms Gade Kulovuori.
-Unions were informed at a meeting between Christmas and New Year, and we will meet this week to continue the dialogue about the process to phase out airfreight handling, says Dot Gade Kulovuori, Stockholm Skavsta Airport manager.
-Talks will also be continued with our existing customer portfolio about how to end our contracts with them, and all obligations will of course be dutifully honoured.
-We have had no scheduled cargo traffic for quite some years now, and the volume of freighter charter operations has declined significantly as well. While there is still some palletising and airfreight trucking, revenues do not warrant a continuation of the business. We will fall short of earlier years' volumes and did not even come close to 10,000 tonnes in 2008.
-We have been in talks with other providers concerning a possible sale of the cargo handling business, and while we were initially met with interest the crisis developing during 2008 and the sharp over-all drop in Sweden's air cargo volumes made potential buyers retreat.
-We are therefore forced to the decision to stop airfreight handling, and the decision will take effect when all obligations have been fulfilled, says Ms Gade Kulovuori.