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Oct 1, 2016 (newstodate): The delicious smell of Norwegian seafood is now luring Emirates SkyCargo to introduce a weekly freighter call at Oslo Gardermoen.
The carrier will have its first landing at Oslo Gardermoen today, October 11, 2016, and plans are initially to offer a weekly Tuesday call by a Boeing 777F freighter flying in from Amsterdam on its homeward flight to Dubai for onward transfer to destination on the carrier's network.
The new Oslo operation marks a deviation from the company's Nordic strategy since July 1, 2014, to concentrate all freighter operations at Copenhagen Airport.
The new freighter service is complementing Emirate's daily passenger flights between Dubai and Oslo service since September 2, 2014.
In October 2015, industry sources revealed that the carrier's revenues from salmon cargo exports constituted 20 percent of total sales in Norway by Emirates, and 80 percent of the carrier's total cargo from the Norwegian markets consist of seafood products.
The news of Emirates' freighter into Oslo comes only days after the decision by Qatar Airways Cargo to grow its service at Oslo to six weekly Airbus A330-200F/Boeing 777F flights from Oslo to Qatar from the start of the coming winter schedule to lift Norwegian seafood to the Asian market places via transfer at Doha.
Qatar Airways Cargo has been online with freighter services in Norway since January 29, 2013, and passenger flights by Qatar Airways have been performed since October 5, 2011.
The carrier will have its first landing at Oslo Gardermoen today, October 11, 2016, and plans are initially to offer a weekly Tuesday call by a Boeing 777F freighter flying in from Amsterdam on its homeward flight to Dubai for onward transfer to destination on the carrier's network.
The new Oslo operation marks a deviation from the company's Nordic strategy since July 1, 2014, to concentrate all freighter operations at Copenhagen Airport.
The new freighter service is complementing Emirate's daily passenger flights between Dubai and Oslo service since September 2, 2014.
In October 2015, industry sources revealed that the carrier's revenues from salmon cargo exports constituted 20 percent of total sales in Norway by Emirates, and 80 percent of the carrier's total cargo from the Norwegian markets consist of seafood products.
The news of Emirates' freighter into Oslo comes only days after the decision by Qatar Airways Cargo to grow its service at Oslo to six weekly Airbus A330-200F/Boeing 777F flights from Oslo to Qatar from the start of the coming winter schedule to lift Norwegian seafood to the Asian market places via transfer at Doha.
Qatar Airways Cargo has been online with freighter services in Norway since January 29, 2013, and passenger flights by Qatar Airways have been performed since October 5, 2011.