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Nov 09, 2009 (newstodate): The new Norwegian freighter services Sundt Atlanta Skybridge will enter the Finnish airfreight market right from the start of operations from November 28, 2009.
The carrier's GSA in the Swedish and Finnish market, Scandinavian AirBridge AB has contracted a RFS provider to truck Finnish shipments from Helsinki into Stockholm Arlanda, from where it is trucked to Oslo Gardermoen together with Swedish airfreight to the Americas.
-We provide Boeing 747-200F freighter flights from Oslo to New York and Miami two times weekly, and deadline for Finnish shipments will be one day earlier than Stockholm, meaning Monday afternoon for the flight on Wednesday, and Thursday afternoon for the flight on Saturday, says Paer Wahlstedt, Scandinavian AirBridge AB general manager.
-Besides New York that is of course an important US gateway, the flight into Miami allows for onward connections to currently some 25 destinations in Central and South America, which may also be attractive to Finnish exporters, says Mr Wahlstedt.
The new service will compete with Finnair Cargo's flights to the USA that generated 5,419 tonnes of cargo during the first ten months of this year - a declining 14 percent, y-o-y, while recovering in October where the carrier lifted 748 tonnes of trans-Atlantic cargo, down only 1.4 percent, compared to last year.
The carrier's GSA in the Swedish and Finnish market, Scandinavian AirBridge AB has contracted a RFS provider to truck Finnish shipments from Helsinki into Stockholm Arlanda, from where it is trucked to Oslo Gardermoen together with Swedish airfreight to the Americas.
-We provide Boeing 747-200F freighter flights from Oslo to New York and Miami two times weekly, and deadline for Finnish shipments will be one day earlier than Stockholm, meaning Monday afternoon for the flight on Wednesday, and Thursday afternoon for the flight on Saturday, says Paer Wahlstedt, Scandinavian AirBridge AB general manager.
-Besides New York that is of course an important US gateway, the flight into Miami allows for onward connections to currently some 25 destinations in Central and South America, which may also be attractive to Finnish exporters, says Mr Wahlstedt.
The new service will compete with Finnair Cargo's flights to the USA that generated 5,419 tonnes of cargo during the first ten months of this year - a declining 14 percent, y-o-y, while recovering in October where the carrier lifted 748 tonnes of trans-Atlantic cargo, down only 1.4 percent, compared to last year.