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Jun 04, 2009 (newstodate): Sweden's Orebro Airport set new annual records on cargo volumes for three consecutive years till 2008 - but 2009 will certainly put an end to sustained growth.
-We have thrived on significant volumes of ad-hoc charters driven by the large Swedish communications industries, first of all Ericsson, as well as by the Swedish automotive industries SAAB and Volvo and their network of suppliers. But all this has decreased severely, notably the traffic from the automotive industry, says Haakan Nilsson, Orebro Airport cargo manager.
-Our single largest business now consists of a number of operations by the Swedish Ministry of Defence, comprising AN-12 and AN-124 freighter flights to Afghanistan.
-We also still have daily TNT flights between Brussels and Helsinki via Orebro Airport, but apart from this activity is low and we will certainly see total cargo volumes in 2009 far below preceding years' levels, says Mr Nilsson.
In this year's Q1 the airport handled 5,700 tonnes of cargo, down some 20 percent, y-o-y.
In 2008 the airport handled a total of 30,293 tonnes of cargo, up 19.6 percent on volumes in 2007.
-We have thrived on significant volumes of ad-hoc charters driven by the large Swedish communications industries, first of all Ericsson, as well as by the Swedish automotive industries SAAB and Volvo and their network of suppliers. But all this has decreased severely, notably the traffic from the automotive industry, says Haakan Nilsson, Orebro Airport cargo manager.
-Our single largest business now consists of a number of operations by the Swedish Ministry of Defence, comprising AN-12 and AN-124 freighter flights to Afghanistan.
-We also still have daily TNT flights between Brussels and Helsinki via Orebro Airport, but apart from this activity is low and we will certainly see total cargo volumes in 2009 far below preceding years' levels, says Mr Nilsson.
In this year's Q1 the airport handled 5,700 tonnes of cargo, down some 20 percent, y-o-y.
In 2008 the airport handled a total of 30,293 tonnes of cargo, up 19.6 percent on volumes in 2007.