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Sep 24, 2012 (newstodate): Visions for a freighter service at the Faroe Islands is gaining wide and positive response.
-There is certainly a basis for a dedicated freighter service. Today's Faroese airfreight market is not large, but volumes are increasing by 40 percent over the last few years, and potentials for further growth are at hand, says Knut L�tzen, CEO and owner of Safari Transport that was established in 1995.
-It is a fact that today airfreight takes second priority after passengers in air transport at Vagar Airport, and this often creates problems with for instance shipments of crucial spare parts and other time-sensitive goods. A freighter service would definitely improve business opportunities.
-We do not foresee anything like a daily service, but one or two weekly rotations would be very attractive and commercially viable.
-Now, I am fully aware that establishing a freighter service requires serious investments, professional management and firm commitments from customers in the market.
-The ideal model that I have already propagated for years would be for importers, exporters and the freighter company to each take one-third of the stake in the freighter project to distribute the risk and consolidate the venture from the early stage. We, at Safari Transport, are certainly ready to join.
-Airfreight imports to the Faroe Islands are coming in mainly from Denmark's Copenhagen Airport, while so far un-exploited potentials for export of commodities like seafood would go mainly to Southern Europe including France as well as to the UK. All in all a challenge, but certainly a project to support, says Mr L�tzen.
-There is certainly a basis for a dedicated freighter service. Today's Faroese airfreight market is not large, but volumes are increasing by 40 percent over the last few years, and potentials for further growth are at hand, says Knut L�tzen, CEO and owner of Safari Transport that was established in 1995.
-It is a fact that today airfreight takes second priority after passengers in air transport at Vagar Airport, and this often creates problems with for instance shipments of crucial spare parts and other time-sensitive goods. A freighter service would definitely improve business opportunities.
-We do not foresee anything like a daily service, but one or two weekly rotations would be very attractive and commercially viable.
-Now, I am fully aware that establishing a freighter service requires serious investments, professional management and firm commitments from customers in the market.
-The ideal model that I have already propagated for years would be for importers, exporters and the freighter company to each take one-third of the stake in the freighter project to distribute the risk and consolidate the venture from the early stage. We, at Safari Transport, are certainly ready to join.
-Airfreight imports to the Faroe Islands are coming in mainly from Denmark's Copenhagen Airport, while so far un-exploited potentials for export of commodities like seafood would go mainly to Southern Europe including France as well as to the UK. All in all a challenge, but certainly a project to support, says Mr L�tzen.