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Apr 20, 2012 (newstodate): Sweden's Orebro Airport landed at around 25,000 tonnes of airfreight in 2011 - not least thanks to DHL Aviation.
Starting from September 19, 2011, Orebro Airport became the fourth Swedish gateway for DHL as the company extended the existing Boeing 737 freighter flight from Brussels to Copenhagen to Orebro, returning from Orebro to Brussels via Copenhagen.
-Airfreight volumes on DHL Aviation's flights have been growing continuously and this is a main driver in volumes at the airport, says Hakan Nilsson, Orebro Airport cargo manager.
-Another important customer at Orebro Airport is TNT, on-line with five weekly BAe 146 operations. In this case we are of course now curious to see how the recent acquisition of TNT by UPS will affect this traffic.
-As for ad-hoc charter operations, this traffic is declining these years first of all due to reduced production by Ericsson that is our key exporting company in the region. The production is now increasingly exported by other means of transportation, and we cannot expect this to change again soon.
-On the other hand, military charter operations continue at Orebro Airport, primarily lifting supplies and equipment in support of the operations in Afghanistan.
-All in all, the situation as for air cargo at Orebro Airport is currently rather stable while we are now in the process of constructing a new 3,000 sq m cargo terminal to compensate for the cargo area transferred to DHL Aviation.
-This project will be completed by November/December 2012, says Mr Nilsson.
Starting from September 19, 2011, Orebro Airport became the fourth Swedish gateway for DHL as the company extended the existing Boeing 737 freighter flight from Brussels to Copenhagen to Orebro, returning from Orebro to Brussels via Copenhagen.
-Airfreight volumes on DHL Aviation's flights have been growing continuously and this is a main driver in volumes at the airport, says Hakan Nilsson, Orebro Airport cargo manager.
-Another important customer at Orebro Airport is TNT, on-line with five weekly BAe 146 operations. In this case we are of course now curious to see how the recent acquisition of TNT by UPS will affect this traffic.
-As for ad-hoc charter operations, this traffic is declining these years first of all due to reduced production by Ericsson that is our key exporting company in the region. The production is now increasingly exported by other means of transportation, and we cannot expect this to change again soon.
-On the other hand, military charter operations continue at Orebro Airport, primarily lifting supplies and equipment in support of the operations in Afghanistan.
-All in all, the situation as for air cargo at Orebro Airport is currently rather stable while we are now in the process of constructing a new 3,000 sq m cargo terminal to compensate for the cargo area transferred to DHL Aviation.
-This project will be completed by November/December 2012, says Mr Nilsson.