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Jan 18, 2016 (newstodate): Norway's seafood exports including the valuable salmon production took another steep step upwards in 2015.
-2015 was a very good year, indeed, with an increase by 19 percent in seafood export volumes, says Knut Eriksmoen, DB Schenker Norway airfreight manager.
-One of the key drivers behind the boom were exports to the US market, benefiting from the difficulties faced by the Chilean salmon industry that otherwise is a large exporter to the US market. It will take time for Chilean producers to recover, leaving much room for sustained growth in Norwegian exports.
-There is, however, limits to growth as Norway's production potentials are after all close to exhaustion, and it takes time to build new production lines.
-Pulling in the opposite, and positive, direction is the growing demand in the US market for "clean" commodities coming from sustainable production methods living up to strict environmental requirements, in the case of seafood a production with little medication and clean production facilities. This will benefit Norway in markets where consumers are willing to pay for premium certified products.
-Another important region of Norway's seafood exports is of course Asia where Japan is a key market, while exports to China and Hong Kong are still affected by political restraints. But other markets are emerging, including for instance India, Indonesia and Myanmar, boding well for our industry, says Mr Eriksmoen.
Some 11 percent of Norway's large seafood exports are lifted by air while the remaining 89 percent are trucked out of the country for uplift from European airports including Amsterdam, Liege, London Heathrow, Paris CDG, Stockholm and Copenhagen.
Totaling some 80-90,000 tonnes annually, Norway's seafood export constitutes Europe's single largest airfreight commodity.
-2015 was a very good year, indeed, with an increase by 19 percent in seafood export volumes, says Knut Eriksmoen, DB Schenker Norway airfreight manager.
-One of the key drivers behind the boom were exports to the US market, benefiting from the difficulties faced by the Chilean salmon industry that otherwise is a large exporter to the US market. It will take time for Chilean producers to recover, leaving much room for sustained growth in Norwegian exports.
-There is, however, limits to growth as Norway's production potentials are after all close to exhaustion, and it takes time to build new production lines.
-Pulling in the opposite, and positive, direction is the growing demand in the US market for "clean" commodities coming from sustainable production methods living up to strict environmental requirements, in the case of seafood a production with little medication and clean production facilities. This will benefit Norway in markets where consumers are willing to pay for premium certified products.
-Another important region of Norway's seafood exports is of course Asia where Japan is a key market, while exports to China and Hong Kong are still affected by political restraints. But other markets are emerging, including for instance India, Indonesia and Myanmar, boding well for our industry, says Mr Eriksmoen.
Some 11 percent of Norway's large seafood exports are lifted by air while the remaining 89 percent are trucked out of the country for uplift from European airports including Amsterdam, Liege, London Heathrow, Paris CDG, Stockholm and Copenhagen.
Totaling some 80-90,000 tonnes annually, Norway's seafood export constitutes Europe's single largest airfreight commodity.