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Feb 20, 2015 (newstodate): Aarhus Airport, in eastern Jutland, will have a new strategy and strategy plan up for approval by its owners by autumn 2015. Air cargo will, however, play only a marginal role.
-We are certainly not ruling out efforts to increase our services to comprise also the airfreight industry, but air cargo will not play any key role in our plans, says Peter Hoegsberg, Aarhus Airport CEO since June 2013.
-Today we are seeing modest volumes of incoming air cargo shipments, but we are aware that some of our customers would like us to become certified as "known consignor" according to the EU Directive to offer also screening and handling of export shipments .
-We have screening equipment, but we would need to train staff for certification, and this would require investments from the airport.
-If we could be convinced that a business case exists for air cargo business at Aarhus Airport to be basically self-suporting economically I would be only happy to push the idea forward. But I doubt that this might be the case, at least if we must meet the full security requirements by the Danish Transport Authority.
-We are, however, in a dialogue with the Transport Authority to see if we can obtain certain dispensations that would allow us to open up for acceptance of out-going air cargo shipments from the airport at reasonable costs, says Mr Hoegsberg.
Mainly offering passenger charter flights, Aarhus Airport has one scheduled route operated by SAS connecting to Copenhagen Airport as well as flights to London by Ryanair and scheduled flights to Stockholm, Gothenburg and Oslo operated by Sun-Air for BA.
-We are certainly not ruling out efforts to increase our services to comprise also the airfreight industry, but air cargo will not play any key role in our plans, says Peter Hoegsberg, Aarhus Airport CEO since June 2013.
-Today we are seeing modest volumes of incoming air cargo shipments, but we are aware that some of our customers would like us to become certified as "known consignor" according to the EU Directive to offer also screening and handling of export shipments .
-We have screening equipment, but we would need to train staff for certification, and this would require investments from the airport.
-If we could be convinced that a business case exists for air cargo business at Aarhus Airport to be basically self-suporting economically I would be only happy to push the idea forward. But I doubt that this might be the case, at least if we must meet the full security requirements by the Danish Transport Authority.
-We are, however, in a dialogue with the Transport Authority to see if we can obtain certain dispensations that would allow us to open up for acceptance of out-going air cargo shipments from the airport at reasonable costs, says Mr Hoegsberg.
Mainly offering passenger charter flights, Aarhus Airport has one scheduled route operated by SAS connecting to Copenhagen Airport as well as flights to London by Ryanair and scheduled flights to Stockholm, Gothenburg and Oslo operated by Sun-Air for BA.