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Nov 06, 2009 (newstodate): Copenhagen Airport is not too unhappy with its airfreight performance in 2009, despite a significant drop in volumes.
-We have seen volumes down by 11.7 percent during January-September, to a total of 206,299 tonnes, says Lars Korup, Copenhagen Airport cargo manager.
-While this is of course not satisfying, the good news is that the airport has not lost any of its freighter operators despite the general decline in the industry.
-On exception, though, is DHL Aviation that moved its previous "Baltic hub operations" from Copenhagen Airport to Leipzig following its strategic decision to focus all European hub functions there. We could not, of course, do anything in this case and it has certainly translated into a decrease in our transfer cargo volumes.
-Otherwise both Air China Cargo and China Cargo Airlines have now returned their earlier third weekly flight at Copenhagen Airport, using Boeing 747-400F and MD-11F freighter, respectively. These flights were temporarily suspended during the slack summer season.
-Singapore Airlines Cargo has reduced from five to four weekly operations at Copenhagen Airport, but on the other hand the carrier launched the freighter service to Chicago and Dallas that was much in demand in the Scandinavian air cargo business where Chicago remains one of the top-three destinations in the CASS statistics.
-Korean Air Cargo is also settled in Copenhagen, now with two weekly flights, and after all DHL is still operating a daily Airbus A300 flight from Leipzig that connects with AN-26 feeder services to Aalborg, Denmark, and Stavanger, Norway.
-So while almost all airports are reporting declining volumes during these times of recession, Copenhagen Airport is certainly not among those most severely hit, says Mr Korup.
-We have seen volumes down by 11.7 percent during January-September, to a total of 206,299 tonnes, says Lars Korup, Copenhagen Airport cargo manager.
-While this is of course not satisfying, the good news is that the airport has not lost any of its freighter operators despite the general decline in the industry.
-On exception, though, is DHL Aviation that moved its previous "Baltic hub operations" from Copenhagen Airport to Leipzig following its strategic decision to focus all European hub functions there. We could not, of course, do anything in this case and it has certainly translated into a decrease in our transfer cargo volumes.
-Otherwise both Air China Cargo and China Cargo Airlines have now returned their earlier third weekly flight at Copenhagen Airport, using Boeing 747-400F and MD-11F freighter, respectively. These flights were temporarily suspended during the slack summer season.
-Singapore Airlines Cargo has reduced from five to four weekly operations at Copenhagen Airport, but on the other hand the carrier launched the freighter service to Chicago and Dallas that was much in demand in the Scandinavian air cargo business where Chicago remains one of the top-three destinations in the CASS statistics.
-Korean Air Cargo is also settled in Copenhagen, now with two weekly flights, and after all DHL is still operating a daily Airbus A300 flight from Leipzig that connects with AN-26 feeder services to Aalborg, Denmark, and Stavanger, Norway.
-So while almost all airports are reporting declining volumes during these times of recession, Copenhagen Airport is certainly not among those most severely hit, says Mr Korup.