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Jun 01, 2010 (newstodate): Although now off-line in Scandinavia, Malaysia Airlines is still seeing sound business in the Nordic airfreight market.
The carrier entered the market with the addition of Stockholm Arlanda, Sweden, as a transit station served three times weekly on the route between Kuala Lumpur and New York from November 2, 2004, but stopped the service at Stockholm Arlanda from October 1, 2009.
-Despite this we are still seeing brisk sales in all three Nordic markets, where cargo sales services are provided by ProActive Airline Services in Denmark and by our own office covering the other three Nordic markets, says Magnus Ohlin, Malaysia Airlines Manager Nordic Region.
-The split between Nordic shipments to Kuala Lumpur and shipments transiting there to other Asian destinations is roughly 50/50, and shipments comprise all kinds of general cargo.
-Shipments via KUL are mainly transiting for flights to Indonesia, the Philippines, Australia and New Zealand, but much cargo is also trucked from KUL to e.g. Singapore.
-Cargo from the three Scandinavian markets is trucked directly from Oslo, Stockholm and Denmark to our hubs at Amsterdam and Frankfurt, while cargo from Finland is taken by ship from Helsinki to Rostock, Germany, and trucked from there to Frankfurt or Amsterdam, cutting total transportation time by roughly one day.
-On the import side, we receive much cargo from China by Malaysia Airline Cargo's freighter service from Kuala Lumpur via Shanghai to Amsterdam, but much cargo is also carried as belly cargo on our passenger flights into Europe, trucked into the Nordic region.
-Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland are definitely important markets for us even if currently not on the carrier's route network, says Mr Ohlin.
Malaysia Airlines has been alone in providing flights, albeit now suspended, between the Nordic market and Malaysia, as Finnair dropped its earlier plans, announced in 2006, to launch flights from Helsinki to Kuala Lumpur from May 2007, focusing instead on increasing services to India, Japan and China.
The carrier entered the market with the addition of Stockholm Arlanda, Sweden, as a transit station served three times weekly on the route between Kuala Lumpur and New York from November 2, 2004, but stopped the service at Stockholm Arlanda from October 1, 2009.
-Despite this we are still seeing brisk sales in all three Nordic markets, where cargo sales services are provided by ProActive Airline Services in Denmark and by our own office covering the other three Nordic markets, says Magnus Ohlin, Malaysia Airlines Manager Nordic Region.
-The split between Nordic shipments to Kuala Lumpur and shipments transiting there to other Asian destinations is roughly 50/50, and shipments comprise all kinds of general cargo.
-Shipments via KUL are mainly transiting for flights to Indonesia, the Philippines, Australia and New Zealand, but much cargo is also trucked from KUL to e.g. Singapore.
-Cargo from the three Scandinavian markets is trucked directly from Oslo, Stockholm and Denmark to our hubs at Amsterdam and Frankfurt, while cargo from Finland is taken by ship from Helsinki to Rostock, Germany, and trucked from there to Frankfurt or Amsterdam, cutting total transportation time by roughly one day.
-On the import side, we receive much cargo from China by Malaysia Airline Cargo's freighter service from Kuala Lumpur via Shanghai to Amsterdam, but much cargo is also carried as belly cargo on our passenger flights into Europe, trucked into the Nordic region.
-Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland are definitely important markets for us even if currently not on the carrier's route network, says Mr Ohlin.
Malaysia Airlines has been alone in providing flights, albeit now suspended, between the Nordic market and Malaysia, as Finnair dropped its earlier plans, announced in 2006, to launch flights from Helsinki to Kuala Lumpur from May 2007, focusing instead on increasing services to India, Japan and China.