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Aug 20, 2014 (newstodate): At an internal meeting at Lakselv Banak Airport, Norway's Avinor will today consider an application for land rent by Viking International Airlines that will launch cargo flights from the airport.
The carrier, still under formation, plans to lift Norwegian seafood exports from the production sites in the northernmost Norwegian region to USA and Asian destinations.
In carried through, Viking Int'l Airlines will finance the construction a new cargo terminal for handling of the seafood and other air cargo shipments within the airport area.
Representatives from Viking International Airlines, including its US driver, John Kunkle, were to take part in the meeting but cancelled due to traveling.
Only two years ago, another company, Kjell Hansen Shipping was engaged in another project to establish a cargo terminal at the airport but plans were aborted and the company is now instead building an off-airport cargo trucking terminal primarily serving domestic north-south cargo transportation.
-We realized that the airport project would require public financial participation and direct support from the seafood exporting companies, which was not forthcoming, so the expensive airport project was scapped, says Jan Skj�lestad, Kjell Hansen Shipping.
If the project driven by Viking International Airlines is eventually realized, Lakselv Banak Airport will thus have its first and only cargo terminal to serve the industry.
The carrier, still under formation, plans to lift Norwegian seafood exports from the production sites in the northernmost Norwegian region to USA and Asian destinations.
In carried through, Viking Int'l Airlines will finance the construction a new cargo terminal for handling of the seafood and other air cargo shipments within the airport area.
Representatives from Viking International Airlines, including its US driver, John Kunkle, were to take part in the meeting but cancelled due to traveling.
Only two years ago, another company, Kjell Hansen Shipping was engaged in another project to establish a cargo terminal at the airport but plans were aborted and the company is now instead building an off-airport cargo trucking terminal primarily serving domestic north-south cargo transportation.
-We realized that the airport project would require public financial participation and direct support from the seafood exporting companies, which was not forthcoming, so the expensive airport project was scapped, says Jan Skj�lestad, Kjell Hansen Shipping.
If the project driven by Viking International Airlines is eventually realized, Lakselv Banak Airport will thus have its first and only cargo terminal to serve the industry.