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Nov 16, 2016 (newstodate): Cargo Center Sweden, at Stockholm Arlanda Airport, is now seeing volumes up again after a prolonged period of decline in 2016.
-Until September, cargo volumes handled by CCC were down on last year, reflecting the general weak situation in the Swedish economy marred by negative interest rates and exchange rates highly unfavorable to the country's exporters, says Magnus Ohlin, Cargo Center Sweden Director Airline Contracts & Services.
-Also contributing to the drop in airfreight volumes has been a drift from air to sea transportation, which however received a blow from the collapse in September of Hanjin which locked access to a huge volume of cargo containers under transportation.
-With September, trends have turned positive again both as to imports and exports, and we hope to be landing 2016 on a positive note, albeit below levels in 2015, and we may even be quite optimistic that the trend will endure into 2017 as well.
-We should also stress that our major carriers have performed well in Sweden, notably Korean Airways with freighter services, as well as Thai Airways and Emirates that offer daily Boeing 777ER flights with some 30 tonnes of cargo capacity, and another positive development is provided by Norwegian that now has 18 intercontinental departures per week from Stockholm.
-Norway's seafood exports via Stockholm continue to grow despite the impressive build-up of freighter capacity at Oslo. After all, daily scheduled flights from Stockholm with wide-body aircraft is a significant complement to freighter operations, says Mr Ohlin.
-Until September, cargo volumes handled by CCC were down on last year, reflecting the general weak situation in the Swedish economy marred by negative interest rates and exchange rates highly unfavorable to the country's exporters, says Magnus Ohlin, Cargo Center Sweden Director Airline Contracts & Services.
-Also contributing to the drop in airfreight volumes has been a drift from air to sea transportation, which however received a blow from the collapse in September of Hanjin which locked access to a huge volume of cargo containers under transportation.
-With September, trends have turned positive again both as to imports and exports, and we hope to be landing 2016 on a positive note, albeit below levels in 2015, and we may even be quite optimistic that the trend will endure into 2017 as well.
-We should also stress that our major carriers have performed well in Sweden, notably Korean Airways with freighter services, as well as Thai Airways and Emirates that offer daily Boeing 777ER flights with some 30 tonnes of cargo capacity, and another positive development is provided by Norwegian that now has 18 intercontinental departures per week from Stockholm.
-Norway's seafood exports via Stockholm continue to grow despite the impressive build-up of freighter capacity at Oslo. After all, daily scheduled flights from Stockholm with wide-body aircraft is a significant complement to freighter operations, says Mr Ohlin.