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Mar 14, 2016 (newstodate): Norway's growing high-value exports of king crabs requires innovative thinking in logistics patterns.
Due to the sensitive nature of the king crabs much effort is required to bring the live commodity to the consumers within a tight time frame, and one way it to turn to uplift from airports close to the production scenes to the world's market place.
The country's leading exporter, Cape Fish first shipped the crabs by truck or by an AN-12 freighter to Oslo Airport for onward carriage on scheduled carriers.
Now the company has launched own direct flights from Lakselv Banak Airport to Seoul, South Korea, using a chartered TU-204C aircraft from the Russian carrier Aviastar in an operation managed by the Norwegian freight forwarder Air Cargo Logistics and aiming at South Korea, China and Japan as well as a number of rising markets such as India, Indonesia, Taiwan, and Malaysia.
As a further new logistics venue the company, in cooperation with partners, is constructing a dedicated "swimming pool" for king crabs some 10 km from Gardermoen Airport, offering the crabs a refreshing interlude between the commuting from north Norway and the flight on commercial carriers out of the airport.
By this means, the crabs will arrive in better shape and with prolonged a shelf life.
-This new initiative is aiming at boosting our exports of king crabs out of Oslo to primarily markets in Europe, the Middle East and not least the USA, complementing the air logistics serving the markets in Northern Asia and other regional consumers, says Bjorn Ronald Olsen, Cape Fish CEO.
According to Mr Olsen, the total volume in 2014 of live king crab exports from Norway were around 600 tonnes, 2015 saw a slight decline to some 550 tonnes, but expectations are that volumes in 2016 will increase to 8-900 tonnes, with potentials for further increases in the years ahead.
Due to the sensitive nature of the king crabs much effort is required to bring the live commodity to the consumers within a tight time frame, and one way it to turn to uplift from airports close to the production scenes to the world's market place.
The country's leading exporter, Cape Fish first shipped the crabs by truck or by an AN-12 freighter to Oslo Airport for onward carriage on scheduled carriers.
Now the company has launched own direct flights from Lakselv Banak Airport to Seoul, South Korea, using a chartered TU-204C aircraft from the Russian carrier Aviastar in an operation managed by the Norwegian freight forwarder Air Cargo Logistics and aiming at South Korea, China and Japan as well as a number of rising markets such as India, Indonesia, Taiwan, and Malaysia.
As a further new logistics venue the company, in cooperation with partners, is constructing a dedicated "swimming pool" for king crabs some 10 km from Gardermoen Airport, offering the crabs a refreshing interlude between the commuting from north Norway and the flight on commercial carriers out of the airport.
By this means, the crabs will arrive in better shape and with prolonged a shelf life.
-This new initiative is aiming at boosting our exports of king crabs out of Oslo to primarily markets in Europe, the Middle East and not least the USA, complementing the air logistics serving the markets in Northern Asia and other regional consumers, says Bjorn Ronald Olsen, Cape Fish CEO.
According to Mr Olsen, the total volume in 2014 of live king crab exports from Norway were around 600 tonnes, 2015 saw a slight decline to some 550 tonnes, but expectations are that volumes in 2016 will increase to 8-900 tonnes, with potentials for further increases in the years ahead.