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Jan 06, 2011 (newstodate): After years with failed attempts to capitalize on the cargo cargo potentials of Sweden's Luleaa Kallax Airport, the state-owned company Swedavia took over the assets of Kallax Cargo in December, 2010.
The airport has thus acquired the cargo handling equipment owned by Kallax Cargo that will be dissolved, securing the continued availability of redundancy in equipment as required by airlines.
-To prepare for future freighter operations at Luleaa Kallax Airport, Swedavia has also decided to expand the taxiway system to accommodate Boeing 747 freighter operations that have so far relied on a dispensation, says Bengt-Ove Lindgren, Luleaa Kallax Airport manager.
-With these moves the airport is fully prepared to welcome a resumption of freighter traffic, and Swedavia will also be willing to invest further in the infrastructure as needs arise.
-We are convinced that there is a rich potential, while it obviously remains to be seen how this potential can be tapped in cooperation with shippers and forwarders in the Norwegian salmon export businesses, as well as with other parties in and around the airfreight industry.
-As the latest development was announced only late in December 2010, we have not yet set up an organization to drive this process, nor has a responsible person from Swedavia been named to spearhead the process. This will, however, be announced shortly into the new year, says Mr Lindgren.
In 2009, Korean Air Cargo operated a Boeing 747-400F service on the routing Seoul-Frankfurt-Luleaa Kallax-Seoul that was, however, stopped early in 2010 despite the fact that the Norwegian industry had committed itself to deliver at least 50 tonnes per week of salmon exports to Asian destinations.
In 2009, Luleaa Kallax Airport generated a total of 503 tonnes of cargo, and a total of 267 tonnes during the first 11 months of 2010.
The airport has thus acquired the cargo handling equipment owned by Kallax Cargo that will be dissolved, securing the continued availability of redundancy in equipment as required by airlines.
-To prepare for future freighter operations at Luleaa Kallax Airport, Swedavia has also decided to expand the taxiway system to accommodate Boeing 747 freighter operations that have so far relied on a dispensation, says Bengt-Ove Lindgren, Luleaa Kallax Airport manager.
-With these moves the airport is fully prepared to welcome a resumption of freighter traffic, and Swedavia will also be willing to invest further in the infrastructure as needs arise.
-We are convinced that there is a rich potential, while it obviously remains to be seen how this potential can be tapped in cooperation with shippers and forwarders in the Norwegian salmon export businesses, as well as with other parties in and around the airfreight industry.
-As the latest development was announced only late in December 2010, we have not yet set up an organization to drive this process, nor has a responsible person from Swedavia been named to spearhead the process. This will, however, be announced shortly into the new year, says Mr Lindgren.
In 2009, Korean Air Cargo operated a Boeing 747-400F service on the routing Seoul-Frankfurt-Luleaa Kallax-Seoul that was, however, stopped early in 2010 despite the fact that the Norwegian industry had committed itself to deliver at least 50 tonnes per week of salmon exports to Asian destinations.
In 2009, Luleaa Kallax Airport generated a total of 503 tonnes of cargo, and a total of 267 tonnes during the first 11 months of 2010.