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Aug 17, 2012 (newstodate): The Norwegian market seems to be able to digest any airfreight uplift capacity that may be introduced.
But while several attempts have been made over the years to set up dedicated freighter services to bring the country's seafood export to the global marketplaces, they have proved short-lived in most cases.
-The problem has been that they have not reached the important destinations, which are first of all destinations in Japan as well as e.g. Taiwan, says Knut Eriksmoen, DB Schenker Norway airfreight manager.
-We have seen attempts to set up a freighter service to the USA, but as Norway's exports to the US market decreased again when production in Chile picked up after a period, this was no success - and rates were too high. We did send some 17,000 tonnes of fresh salmon to the US market in 2010, but this volume has since gone down significantly.
-British Airways World Cargo set up a freighter flight from Oslo to Hong Kong, but this also did not hit the point as this destination is not of prime importance.
-Besides Japan that remain our single largest market, the highest growth potentials are still China, Taiwan, and among others the Emirates and we would be happy for direct freighter flights to serve these markets directly.
-China remains a most difficult market for Norwegian seafood exporters. Officially, there is no embargo on imports, but conditions for our seafood exports to China change from week to week.
-At some point Beijing was a major gateway, then it suddenly shut the gates and traffic was instead targeting Tianjin. Now, this point is also closed and Norwegian seafood instead find inroads into China via Guangzhou and Hong Kong. This is of course a very difficult situation and ever-changing logistics mean extra costs and expenditures, says Mr Eriksmoen.
In 2012, volumes of Norway's salmon export are growing at more than 20 percent
But while several attempts have been made over the years to set up dedicated freighter services to bring the country's seafood export to the global marketplaces, they have proved short-lived in most cases.
-The problem has been that they have not reached the important destinations, which are first of all destinations in Japan as well as e.g. Taiwan, says Knut Eriksmoen, DB Schenker Norway airfreight manager.
-We have seen attempts to set up a freighter service to the USA, but as Norway's exports to the US market decreased again when production in Chile picked up after a period, this was no success - and rates were too high. We did send some 17,000 tonnes of fresh salmon to the US market in 2010, but this volume has since gone down significantly.
-British Airways World Cargo set up a freighter flight from Oslo to Hong Kong, but this also did not hit the point as this destination is not of prime importance.
-Besides Japan that remain our single largest market, the highest growth potentials are still China, Taiwan, and among others the Emirates and we would be happy for direct freighter flights to serve these markets directly.
-China remains a most difficult market for Norwegian seafood exporters. Officially, there is no embargo on imports, but conditions for our seafood exports to China change from week to week.
-At some point Beijing was a major gateway, then it suddenly shut the gates and traffic was instead targeting Tianjin. Now, this point is also closed and Norwegian seafood instead find inroads into China via Guangzhou and Hong Kong. This is of course a very difficult situation and ever-changing logistics mean extra costs and expenditures, says Mr Eriksmoen.
In 2012, volumes of Norway's salmon export are growing at more than 20 percent