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Dec 20, 2011 (newstodate): Sweden's Norrkoping Airport is fighting hard to grow its cargo business - but relies on one commodity mainly: Icelandic horse transports.
-The Icelandair Cargo traffic from Keflavik, Iceland, with Icelandic horses is crucial to Norrkoping Airport and we are indeed happy to see the freighters coming in also in 2011. But the volume of operations has gone down this year, says Jorgen Nilsson, Norrkoping Airport marketing manager.
-Seen from the statistics in November 2011, we are down roughly one-third, to 64 tonnes and this is probably going to be the case even for the full-year statistics.
-Needless to say, we are keen to see volumes growing above the 140 tonnes handled in 2010, and we pinned great hopes on the start of export cargo on the return trip of the weekly Icelandair Cargo freighter from 2008.
-Unfortunately, this traffic was immediately hit by the developing financial and economic crises, which put an end to this venture, temporarily at least. We are hoping for a resumption of the export business as conditions improve again, hopefully by next year already.
-The task remains to develop new cargo business opportunities while retaining the important horse traffic. Norrkoping Airport is favorably located only two kilometers from an important commercial harbor, a railroad connecting Stockholm and Copenhagen, and an efficient European highway system between north and south, second in Swedish logistics infrastructure only to Gothenburg, says Mr Nilsson.
-The Icelandair Cargo traffic from Keflavik, Iceland, with Icelandic horses is crucial to Norrkoping Airport and we are indeed happy to see the freighters coming in also in 2011. But the volume of operations has gone down this year, says Jorgen Nilsson, Norrkoping Airport marketing manager.
-Seen from the statistics in November 2011, we are down roughly one-third, to 64 tonnes and this is probably going to be the case even for the full-year statistics.
-Needless to say, we are keen to see volumes growing above the 140 tonnes handled in 2010, and we pinned great hopes on the start of export cargo on the return trip of the weekly Icelandair Cargo freighter from 2008.
-Unfortunately, this traffic was immediately hit by the developing financial and economic crises, which put an end to this venture, temporarily at least. We are hoping for a resumption of the export business as conditions improve again, hopefully by next year already.
-The task remains to develop new cargo business opportunities while retaining the important horse traffic. Norrkoping Airport is favorably located only two kilometers from an important commercial harbor, a railroad connecting Stockholm and Copenhagen, and an efficient European highway system between north and south, second in Swedish logistics infrastructure only to Gothenburg, says Mr Nilsson.