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Mar 27, 2012 (newstodate): A freighter service to provide the Faroe Islands with capacity to export seafood to the global market place is not on the immediate agenda - but much effort is invested in the plans.
A project group comprising active Faroese aviation professionals is working on the feasibility of setting up a freighter service to transport the country's growing seafood exports as an alternative to today's logistic solution.
-Faroese seafood exporters now rely on the over-night ferry service to Scotland from where shipments are trucked into London Heathrow for onward transportation, says a spokesman for the project group.
-This ferry service runs only once weekly, however, significantly narrowing the exporters' access to their markets. With a regular and more frequent freighter service, exporters would gain in sales opportunities and market penetration.
-A crucial issue is, of course, rates that will necessarily be higher for air transport, compared to ferry and trucks. For one thing, a dedicated freighter service would need not only exports but also imports, or alternatively the freighter services might be routed through other points on the incoming flight, to attract other loads contributing to the over-all performance.
-We are therefore also looking into possible partnerships or cooperating with other parties to strengthen the business model. Finding investors will also pose a challenge, but as we are not in any hurry I am convinced that we will eventually succeed in coming up with a viable solution and an attractive offer to the seafood exporters in the Faroe Islands, he says.
A project group comprising active Faroese aviation professionals is working on the feasibility of setting up a freighter service to transport the country's growing seafood exports as an alternative to today's logistic solution.
-Faroese seafood exporters now rely on the over-night ferry service to Scotland from where shipments are trucked into London Heathrow for onward transportation, says a spokesman for the project group.
-This ferry service runs only once weekly, however, significantly narrowing the exporters' access to their markets. With a regular and more frequent freighter service, exporters would gain in sales opportunities and market penetration.
-A crucial issue is, of course, rates that will necessarily be higher for air transport, compared to ferry and trucks. For one thing, a dedicated freighter service would need not only exports but also imports, or alternatively the freighter services might be routed through other points on the incoming flight, to attract other loads contributing to the over-all performance.
-We are therefore also looking into possible partnerships or cooperating with other parties to strengthen the business model. Finding investors will also pose a challenge, but as we are not in any hurry I am convinced that we will eventually succeed in coming up with a viable solution and an attractive offer to the seafood exporters in the Faroe Islands, he says.