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Apr 14, 2015 (newstodate): With Qatar's decision to suspend freighter services at Norway's Stavanger Airport during the summer period, Lufthansa Cargo is alone in the freighter business at the airport.
As reported earlier by newstodate, industry sources cite the current down-slide in the international oil & gas industries as the background for Qatar's decision, leaving only the seafood exports to drive the freighter that has now been shifted to Oslo Gardermoen Airport instead.
Lufthansa Cargo's weekly Boeing 777F freighter service at Stavanger since November 8, 2014, flying in from Houston and continuing to Frankfurt, has its sole focus on connecting the two leading off-shore oil & gas destinations in the USA and Norway as well as offering export capacity via Frankfurt.
-In the current situation, I cannot see a major role for Stavanger in the seafood export as there are no terminal facilities pertaining to the handling of this commodity. If facilities would be built, and if the infrastructure connecting Stavanger to the rest of country through the realization of the E39 Highway project is actually carried through, this would change, says Christopher Harneid, Lufthansa Cargo country manager Norway.
At Stavanger, the airport's manager Leif Anker Lorentzen, still sees prospects for freighter operations to bloom.
-The development in the oil and gas industries is highly turbulent, spanning from fervent optimism to full-stops. But in the slightly longer view I have no doubt that the opening of new exploration fields will drive the process forward again, either by the end of 2015 or by early 2016.
-We at Stavanger Airport has seen traffic developing from early 2014 and all through this year so even with a slight recession right now we remain confident, says Mr Lorentzen.
As reported earlier by newstodate, industry sources cite the current down-slide in the international oil & gas industries as the background for Qatar's decision, leaving only the seafood exports to drive the freighter that has now been shifted to Oslo Gardermoen Airport instead.
Lufthansa Cargo's weekly Boeing 777F freighter service at Stavanger since November 8, 2014, flying in from Houston and continuing to Frankfurt, has its sole focus on connecting the two leading off-shore oil & gas destinations in the USA and Norway as well as offering export capacity via Frankfurt.
-In the current situation, I cannot see a major role for Stavanger in the seafood export as there are no terminal facilities pertaining to the handling of this commodity. If facilities would be built, and if the infrastructure connecting Stavanger to the rest of country through the realization of the E39 Highway project is actually carried through, this would change, says Christopher Harneid, Lufthansa Cargo country manager Norway.
At Stavanger, the airport's manager Leif Anker Lorentzen, still sees prospects for freighter operations to bloom.
-The development in the oil and gas industries is highly turbulent, spanning from fervent optimism to full-stops. But in the slightly longer view I have no doubt that the opening of new exploration fields will drive the process forward again, either by the end of 2015 or by early 2016.
-We at Stavanger Airport has seen traffic developing from early 2014 and all through this year so even with a slight recession right now we remain confident, says Mr Lorentzen.