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Mar 12, 2010 (newstodate): Boasting a favorable location for great-circle flights between Europe and Northern Asia, Sweden's Luleaa Kallax Airport has so far seen little success with plans for a scheduled freighter service.
Latest efforts by Kallax Cargo Airport, owned by five transport and logistics partners in Sweden, Norway, and Finland alongside the initial Swedish owners NCC, Norrporten and Luleaa County, to keep Korean Air Cargo flying between Luleaa and Incheon, South Korea, are still inconclusive.
Originally scheduled for a weekly rotation from January 2009, services through Luleaa on the route between Frankfurt and Incheon were again suspended in November 2009 after only few flights, and there are no immediate plans by the carrier to restart operations as Kallax Cargo Airport has not succeeded in securing sufficient firm commitments from the prime customer base - Norway's exporters of fresh salmon to the Asian markets.
Efforts to promote the service among exporters of other commodities in the northern parts of Norway, Sweden and Finland also produced few results.
Latest efforts by Kallax Cargo Airport, owned by five transport and logistics partners in Sweden, Norway, and Finland alongside the initial Swedish owners NCC, Norrporten and Luleaa County, to keep Korean Air Cargo flying between Luleaa and Incheon, South Korea, are still inconclusive.
Originally scheduled for a weekly rotation from January 2009, services through Luleaa on the route between Frankfurt and Incheon were again suspended in November 2009 after only few flights, and there are no immediate plans by the carrier to restart operations as Kallax Cargo Airport has not succeeded in securing sufficient firm commitments from the prime customer base - Norway's exporters of fresh salmon to the Asian markets.
Efforts to promote the service among exporters of other commodities in the northern parts of Norway, Sweden and Finland also produced few results.