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Jun 03, 2011 (newstodate): The Swedish air cargo market is performing very positively, and outlooks over the next four years are promising, according to Lufthansa Cargo.
-The Swedish industry is very export-oriented, with several large drivers including Ericsson, Scania, Atlas Copco and others that rely on air transportation, says Alexander Kohnen, Lufthansa Cargo Director for the Nordic and Baltic countries, based in Stockholm, Sweden.
-In the current situation planning is clearly falling behind market growth, leading to a strong demand for air transportation. As a carrier we see a reflection on rates levels although not as strongly as in the earlier pre-crisis boom years.
-Raising fares will not, however, be plain sailing. We foresee a short-term slow-down during the summer period with traffic picking up again from August-September. And anyway - pricing is not easy in the wake of the ash-clouds!
-For Lufthansa Cargo there is ample room for increase in the Swedish market. We actually lost some business lately and failed to participate fully in the market hike due to snags in internal organization and steering. This has now been corrected, with allocation of more resources from administration to front services.
-After 10 months as #1 in the Swedish airfreight market we thus dropped to a position as No 2 in April, with 10.5 percent of the market after SAS Cargo with 11.1 percent. Third was Finnair Cargo, followed by KLM and Emirates.
-Overall, the Nordic markets are very straight-forward and transparent while also very different with own characteristics, says Mr Kohnen who took up his office by the end of March 2011, following on the transfer of its former holder, Kay Wichmann who is now back in Frankfurt as Lufthansa Cargo Head of the Customer Service Division for the German home market.
-The Swedish industry is very export-oriented, with several large drivers including Ericsson, Scania, Atlas Copco and others that rely on air transportation, says Alexander Kohnen, Lufthansa Cargo Director for the Nordic and Baltic countries, based in Stockholm, Sweden.
-In the current situation planning is clearly falling behind market growth, leading to a strong demand for air transportation. As a carrier we see a reflection on rates levels although not as strongly as in the earlier pre-crisis boom years.
-Raising fares will not, however, be plain sailing. We foresee a short-term slow-down during the summer period with traffic picking up again from August-September. And anyway - pricing is not easy in the wake of the ash-clouds!
-For Lufthansa Cargo there is ample room for increase in the Swedish market. We actually lost some business lately and failed to participate fully in the market hike due to snags in internal organization and steering. This has now been corrected, with allocation of more resources from administration to front services.
-After 10 months as #1 in the Swedish airfreight market we thus dropped to a position as No 2 in April, with 10.5 percent of the market after SAS Cargo with 11.1 percent. Third was Finnair Cargo, followed by KLM and Emirates.
-Overall, the Nordic markets are very straight-forward and transparent while also very different with own characteristics, says Mr Kohnen who took up his office by the end of March 2011, following on the transfer of its former holder, Kay Wichmann who is now back in Frankfurt as Lufthansa Cargo Head of the Customer Service Division for the German home market.