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Oct 08, 2014 (newstodate): The Swedish regional airport Orebro sees little growth in cargo but still expects to land this year's volumes at 2013-levels.
-2014 has been another challenging year at Orebro Airport, with fewer commercial ad-hoc charters while there has been a number of military and relief cargo operations, says Haakan Nilsson, Orebro Airport cargo manager.
-The relatively stable volumes of cargo and mail have been provided by DHL operating five weekly Boeing 757F flights from Leipzig, continuing to Billund Airport before returning to Leipzig, TNT with another five weekly Boeing 737 freighter rotations from Brussels as well as five weekly flights by Amapola and West Atlantic for Post Sweden.
-All in all, we expect volumes this year to be around the same levels as in 2013 where some 20,000 tonnes of cargo was handled at Orebro Airport.
-Work is now progressing on the project to extend the runway from 2,600 to 3,300 m plus the addition of a 300m exit zone at each end of the runway. This will allow operations with larger aircraft without weight penalties which will not least benefit charter tour operators that can provide long-haul flights without en-route fuel stops. But hopefully this will also enable us to attract new cargo business, says Mr Nilsson.
The runway project is slated for commissioning by late autumn 2015.
-2014 has been another challenging year at Orebro Airport, with fewer commercial ad-hoc charters while there has been a number of military and relief cargo operations, says Haakan Nilsson, Orebro Airport cargo manager.
-The relatively stable volumes of cargo and mail have been provided by DHL operating five weekly Boeing 757F flights from Leipzig, continuing to Billund Airport before returning to Leipzig, TNT with another five weekly Boeing 737 freighter rotations from Brussels as well as five weekly flights by Amapola and West Atlantic for Post Sweden.
-All in all, we expect volumes this year to be around the same levels as in 2013 where some 20,000 tonnes of cargo was handled at Orebro Airport.
-Work is now progressing on the project to extend the runway from 2,600 to 3,300 m plus the addition of a 300m exit zone at each end of the runway. This will allow operations with larger aircraft without weight penalties which will not least benefit charter tour operators that can provide long-haul flights without en-route fuel stops. But hopefully this will also enable us to attract new cargo business, says Mr Nilsson.
The runway project is slated for commissioning by late autumn 2015.