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Jun 27, 2016 (newstodate): Avinor has strengthened its focus on air cargo with the first-ever appointment of a Cargo Director, Martin Langaas, who took up his new position from June 1, 2016.
-The point of departure is quite obvious: Norway is by far the largest airfreight market in Scandinavia, dominated by seafood exports with the salmon being the world's largest air cargo commodity, says Mr Langaas.
-In 2015, Norway exported about 200,000 tonnes of seafood by air, only about 46,000 tonnes of which was actually lifted from Norway's airports, the rest trucked into other Nordic and continental airports for uplift.
-Fact is that any cargo capacity available in the Norwegian market is immediately grabbed by the seafood exporters that can utilize any additional opportunity to ship seafood by air directly from Norway rather than having to truck shipments out of the country at a expense of shortened shelf-life at the final destinations.
-We are happy with the freighter operators at Oslo Airport, but the issue of imbalance on dedicated freighters remains a challenge. Our main focus is to develop cargo capacity on passenger flights where revenues from cargo is a welcome contribution not least in times with declining passenger fares and limits to sourcing incremental income from various extra passenger fees. In this scenario, cargo is often the extra value securing the profitability of a passenger route in and out of Norway.
-We are also to work on shifting more incoming airfreight from today's trucking routes from continental airports, to passenger aircraft operating into Norway. I am convinced that there is an untapped potential here as well to spur the development and profitability of more passenger flights at Avinor's airports.
-In short, our focus now will be on establishing the analytical basis for attracting more airlines to set up, or increase, their services into Norway, and as part of the Avinor's Route Development organization, my job as Cargo Director will be to contribute to these efforts by increasing the cargo capacity serving Norway's exporting industry, says Mr Langaas.
-The point of departure is quite obvious: Norway is by far the largest airfreight market in Scandinavia, dominated by seafood exports with the salmon being the world's largest air cargo commodity, says Mr Langaas.
-In 2015, Norway exported about 200,000 tonnes of seafood by air, only about 46,000 tonnes of which was actually lifted from Norway's airports, the rest trucked into other Nordic and continental airports for uplift.
-Fact is that any cargo capacity available in the Norwegian market is immediately grabbed by the seafood exporters that can utilize any additional opportunity to ship seafood by air directly from Norway rather than having to truck shipments out of the country at a expense of shortened shelf-life at the final destinations.
-We are happy with the freighter operators at Oslo Airport, but the issue of imbalance on dedicated freighters remains a challenge. Our main focus is to develop cargo capacity on passenger flights where revenues from cargo is a welcome contribution not least in times with declining passenger fares and limits to sourcing incremental income from various extra passenger fees. In this scenario, cargo is often the extra value securing the profitability of a passenger route in and out of Norway.
-We are also to work on shifting more incoming airfreight from today's trucking routes from continental airports, to passenger aircraft operating into Norway. I am convinced that there is an untapped potential here as well to spur the development and profitability of more passenger flights at Avinor's airports.
-In short, our focus now will be on establishing the analytical basis for attracting more airlines to set up, or increase, their services into Norway, and as part of the Avinor's Route Development organization, my job as Cargo Director will be to contribute to these efforts by increasing the cargo capacity serving Norway's exporting industry, says Mr Langaas.