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May 18, 2010 (newstodate): With three weekly Boeing 747-400F flights from Oslo Gardermoen Airport to Seoul, Korean Air Cargo is a prime provider of uplift for Norway's huge air exports of fresh salmon to the Asian markets.
Korean Air Cargo launched its Boeing 747-400F freighter services from Oslo to Inchon, Korea, on March 9, 2004, with one weekly flight, increasing to two from September, 2004, and going up to the current schedule of three weekly flights from 2006.
-Behind our success with the freighter coming in from Vienna and continuing to Korea is the efficiency of our hub at Inchon where we can transfer containerized shipments within ninety minutes to flights to our destinations in Asia, first of all in China and Japan, says Arnfinn Husoy, Korean air Cargo sales manager Norway.
-But to secure a balanced operation, success is needed on the return flights as well, and this is secured not least by the ever-growing Chinese market as well as Japan.
Over the years, many projects have been set up to provide freighter flights with the much-coveted Norwegian salmon to the global marketplace - but in the end none have survived so far.
-The crux remains the availability of a hub allowing for on-ward distribution of shipments to a range of markets as well as for collection of freight for return flights, says Mr Husoy.
-With only point-to-point traffic as most of these projects have offered, the response in the market in the form of firm and long-lasting customer commitments have obviously proved difficult to achieve, and the entire traffic system becomes most sensitive to changes in the market as well as to competitive fluctuations, says Mr Husoy.
Norway's total export by air of seafood products accrue to some 60-70,000 tonnes per year, and Korean Air Cargo is estimated to handle some 12,000 tonnes of salmon per year on its Oslo freighter service.
Korean Air Cargo launched its Boeing 747-400F freighter services from Oslo to Inchon, Korea, on March 9, 2004, with one weekly flight, increasing to two from September, 2004, and going up to the current schedule of three weekly flights from 2006.
-Behind our success with the freighter coming in from Vienna and continuing to Korea is the efficiency of our hub at Inchon where we can transfer containerized shipments within ninety minutes to flights to our destinations in Asia, first of all in China and Japan, says Arnfinn Husoy, Korean air Cargo sales manager Norway.
-But to secure a balanced operation, success is needed on the return flights as well, and this is secured not least by the ever-growing Chinese market as well as Japan.
Over the years, many projects have been set up to provide freighter flights with the much-coveted Norwegian salmon to the global marketplace - but in the end none have survived so far.
-The crux remains the availability of a hub allowing for on-ward distribution of shipments to a range of markets as well as for collection of freight for return flights, says Mr Husoy.
-With only point-to-point traffic as most of these projects have offered, the response in the market in the form of firm and long-lasting customer commitments have obviously proved difficult to achieve, and the entire traffic system becomes most sensitive to changes in the market as well as to competitive fluctuations, says Mr Husoy.
Norway's total export by air of seafood products accrue to some 60-70,000 tonnes per year, and Korean Air Cargo is estimated to handle some 12,000 tonnes of salmon per year on its Oslo freighter service.