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Apr 26, 2016 (newstodate): Sweden's Norrkoping Airport has rich experience with handling of live animal flights, and is still very much in this market.
For many years, Icelandair Cargo had been flying shipments of Icelandic horses into Norrkoping on an ad-hoc charter basis until 2005 when the traffic was halted as the airport did not meet the BIP criteria, which caused the horse transports to be directed instead to Denmark's Billund Airport.
The operations were resumed from 2007 with the opening of Norrkoping Airport as an EU-certified Border Inspection Post, which gained the airport an edge over Stockholm Arlanda Airport.
The Icelandic Boeing 757-200F freighter flights developed into a weekly service from 2008, and plans were even to open up for export sales on the return flight to Iceland, but this came to a stop in 2010 as the traffic was hit severely by the general economic crisis as well as a temporary ban on exports of Icelandic horses.
-Now we are again seeing five to six annual flights by Icelandair Cargo bringing 60-70 horses per flight into Norrkoping Airport for onward sales in the European markets, says Bertil Skarblom, Norrkoping Airport Marketing and Sales Manager.
-Apart from this we do not currently have any dedicated cargo flights at the airport, but it remains our ambition to attract new operators to Norrkoping Airport where cargo handling services are provided by Cargo Center Sweden.
The airport's cargo volumes are thus now generated in the trucked air cargo business serving the region with much Swedish export industry, including SAAB, Ericsson and Ahlstrom facilities.
For many years, Icelandair Cargo had been flying shipments of Icelandic horses into Norrkoping on an ad-hoc charter basis until 2005 when the traffic was halted as the airport did not meet the BIP criteria, which caused the horse transports to be directed instead to Denmark's Billund Airport.
The operations were resumed from 2007 with the opening of Norrkoping Airport as an EU-certified Border Inspection Post, which gained the airport an edge over Stockholm Arlanda Airport.
The Icelandic Boeing 757-200F freighter flights developed into a weekly service from 2008, and plans were even to open up for export sales on the return flight to Iceland, but this came to a stop in 2010 as the traffic was hit severely by the general economic crisis as well as a temporary ban on exports of Icelandic horses.
-Now we are again seeing five to six annual flights by Icelandair Cargo bringing 60-70 horses per flight into Norrkoping Airport for onward sales in the European markets, says Bertil Skarblom, Norrkoping Airport Marketing and Sales Manager.
-Apart from this we do not currently have any dedicated cargo flights at the airport, but it remains our ambition to attract new operators to Norrkoping Airport where cargo handling services are provided by Cargo Center Sweden.
The airport's cargo volumes are thus now generated in the trucked air cargo business serving the region with much Swedish export industry, including SAAB, Ericsson and Ahlstrom facilities.