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Aug 12, 2013 (newstodate): Turkish Airlines Cargo is relying heavily on its freighters in services to and from the Nordic region.
-We are currently operating two weekly rotations on our triangular freighter services routed from Istanbul to Helsinki and returning via Stockholm, says Cuneyt Oksuz, Turkish Airlines Regional Cargo Manager, Sweden, Norway, Finland.
-Plans have been on the table for quite some time to add a third freighter frequency to the Nordic market, but so far no final decision has been made. Also it remain in the air if a future 3rd frequency would have the same triangular routing, or if it might operate into other airports like Gothenburg, Oslo or Billund.
-We are seeing good export cargo loads on these flights, but happily imports loads are also significant especially into Finland and, to a lesser degree, into Sweden, contributing to the profitability of these operations.
-We are competing against many other carriers for seafood exports from Norway. This is indeed a great challenge, but we are keen to have a fair share of this market.
-The Swedish market is also demanding as shippers tend to see sea transportation as an alternative to airfreight. This has been especially the case with Ericsson that used to be a large airfreight customers.
-The Finnish market is indeed performing rather well for us, and there are increasing volumes of Turkish export commodities destined for Finland. The business to and from Finland is certainly picking up.
-Although Turkish Airlines operates a growing passenger traffic into the Nordic region, this contributes only limited to our cargo traffic. The passenger aircraft are narrow-body aircraft, passenger load factors are high, and most of the passengers are Turkish travelers with extensive extra baggage leaving little space for cargo. We do lift cargo on passengers flights, but on a very limited scale.
-Most of our cargo is general cargo, plus perishables in the form of seafood from Norway, We only seldom see VALs, live animals or other special cargo although we would indeed have the capacity to accept these shipments as well, says Mr Oksuz.
Serving Turkish Airlines Cargo in the Nordic region is NordicGSA that also arranges trucking services connecting to the carrier's freighter services as well as to and from the adjacent Baltic region.
-We are currently operating two weekly rotations on our triangular freighter services routed from Istanbul to Helsinki and returning via Stockholm, says Cuneyt Oksuz, Turkish Airlines Regional Cargo Manager, Sweden, Norway, Finland.
-Plans have been on the table for quite some time to add a third freighter frequency to the Nordic market, but so far no final decision has been made. Also it remain in the air if a future 3rd frequency would have the same triangular routing, or if it might operate into other airports like Gothenburg, Oslo or Billund.
-We are seeing good export cargo loads on these flights, but happily imports loads are also significant especially into Finland and, to a lesser degree, into Sweden, contributing to the profitability of these operations.
-We are competing against many other carriers for seafood exports from Norway. This is indeed a great challenge, but we are keen to have a fair share of this market.
-The Swedish market is also demanding as shippers tend to see sea transportation as an alternative to airfreight. This has been especially the case with Ericsson that used to be a large airfreight customers.
-The Finnish market is indeed performing rather well for us, and there are increasing volumes of Turkish export commodities destined for Finland. The business to and from Finland is certainly picking up.
-Although Turkish Airlines operates a growing passenger traffic into the Nordic region, this contributes only limited to our cargo traffic. The passenger aircraft are narrow-body aircraft, passenger load factors are high, and most of the passengers are Turkish travelers with extensive extra baggage leaving little space for cargo. We do lift cargo on passengers flights, but on a very limited scale.
-Most of our cargo is general cargo, plus perishables in the form of seafood from Norway, We only seldom see VALs, live animals or other special cargo although we would indeed have the capacity to accept these shipments as well, says Mr Oksuz.
Serving Turkish Airlines Cargo in the Nordic region is NordicGSA that also arranges trucking services connecting to the carrier's freighter services as well as to and from the adjacent Baltic region.