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Aug 14, 2014 (newstodate): The board of Sweden's Stockholm Skavsta Airport has now called in an internationally renowned expert to take charge of the ailing airport.
Starting from September 1, 2014, Skavsta Airport will be managed by Dutch national Peter Steinmetz, coming from a position as the Dutch Schiphol Group's managing director for Queen Beatrix International Airport in Oranjestad, Aruba.
Mr Steinmetz takes the helm after the airport's former managing director since 2001, Dot Gade Kulovuori who was abruptly relieved of her position by July 31, 2014, with Joakim Lindholm, Skavsta Airport's Operations Director since January 1991, temporarily filling the void in the interim period.
On October 1, 2013, the US company ADC & HAS Airports Worldwide acquired a majority stake at close to 90 percent in Skavsta Airport, with the regional government maintaining the remainder of the shares.
Stockholm Skavsta Airport has seen its traffic volume down by some 30 percent after its prime airline customer, Ryanair's decision to close down several of its routes from the airport and limiting its hub activity.
Earlier thriving on air cargo, Skavsta Airport, however, laid down its cargo activities entirely from 2009, prompted by the general downturn in Sweden's air cargo industry through 2008, and dwindling hopes for any improvement in the profitability of its airfreight business.
At its height, the airport handled some 15,000 tonnes of air cargo, 80 percent of which was trucked cargo, but the airport also experienced a rather stable volume of cargo charter operations, with 27 Boeing 747 and AN-124 ad-hoc freighter flights in 2007.
Unsubstantiated speculations are that the new owners may consider taking up handling of airfreight again.
Starting from September 1, 2014, Skavsta Airport will be managed by Dutch national Peter Steinmetz, coming from a position as the Dutch Schiphol Group's managing director for Queen Beatrix International Airport in Oranjestad, Aruba.
Mr Steinmetz takes the helm after the airport's former managing director since 2001, Dot Gade Kulovuori who was abruptly relieved of her position by July 31, 2014, with Joakim Lindholm, Skavsta Airport's Operations Director since January 1991, temporarily filling the void in the interim period.
On October 1, 2013, the US company ADC & HAS Airports Worldwide acquired a majority stake at close to 90 percent in Skavsta Airport, with the regional government maintaining the remainder of the shares.
Stockholm Skavsta Airport has seen its traffic volume down by some 30 percent after its prime airline customer, Ryanair's decision to close down several of its routes from the airport and limiting its hub activity.
Earlier thriving on air cargo, Skavsta Airport, however, laid down its cargo activities entirely from 2009, prompted by the general downturn in Sweden's air cargo industry through 2008, and dwindling hopes for any improvement in the profitability of its airfreight business.
At its height, the airport handled some 15,000 tonnes of air cargo, 80 percent of which was trucked cargo, but the airport also experienced a rather stable volume of cargo charter operations, with 27 Boeing 747 and AN-124 ad-hoc freighter flights in 2007.
Unsubstantiated speculations are that the new owners may consider taking up handling of airfreight again.