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July 01, 2010 (newstodate): Helsinki Vantaa Airport is today seeing the launch of a new handling provider - North Hub Services.
-The production line is in full swing from this morning, and everyone is eager to see a successful start to our production at Finland's capital airport, says Juris Peterssons, North Hub Services PR manager.
North Hub Services Finland Oy is a fully-owned subsidiary of the Latvian mother company, initially staffed with some 40 employees to provide the market at Helsinki Vantaa Airport with ground administration, passenger services, baggage handling, ramp services, flight and crew operations, and aircraft servicing including de-icing.
The opening of the new operational base at Helsinki Vantaa Airport also marks the first step outside Latvia under a strategy of expansion to set up operations at all major airport around the Baltic Sea.
Next to come after Finland is the opening of services by NHS in Estonia's Tallinn Airport from October 31, 2010.
Further down the line is the opening of a subsidiary in Lithuania's Vilnius Airport from autumn 2011, while operations at Denmark's Copenhagen Airport are slated to start from summer 2012.
North Hub Services, with Janis Balkens as CEO, was established in 2009 by Baltijas Aviacijas Sistemas owned by Bertolt Flick, who is also the president, CEO and co-owner of the Latvian carrier airBaltic.
On April 12, 2010, the Turkish ground handling company HAVAS bought 50 percent of the shares in North Hub Services.
-The production line is in full swing from this morning, and everyone is eager to see a successful start to our production at Finland's capital airport, says Juris Peterssons, North Hub Services PR manager.
North Hub Services Finland Oy is a fully-owned subsidiary of the Latvian mother company, initially staffed with some 40 employees to provide the market at Helsinki Vantaa Airport with ground administration, passenger services, baggage handling, ramp services, flight and crew operations, and aircraft servicing including de-icing.
The opening of the new operational base at Helsinki Vantaa Airport also marks the first step outside Latvia under a strategy of expansion to set up operations at all major airport around the Baltic Sea.
Next to come after Finland is the opening of services by NHS in Estonia's Tallinn Airport from October 31, 2010.
Further down the line is the opening of a subsidiary in Lithuania's Vilnius Airport from autumn 2011, while operations at Denmark's Copenhagen Airport are slated to start from summer 2012.
North Hub Services, with Janis Balkens as CEO, was established in 2009 by Baltijas Aviacijas Sistemas owned by Bertolt Flick, who is also the president, CEO and co-owner of the Latvian carrier airBaltic.
On April 12, 2010, the Turkish ground handling company HAVAS bought 50 percent of the shares in North Hub Services.