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Jan 26, 2017 (newstodate): Seafood exports from the Faroe Islands are rising in 2016 - but airfreight volumes through the country's Vagar Airport are still modest.
In 2016 total volumes of air cargo were down by 6.4 percent to 487 tonnes despite a marked growth during Q4.
The scarcity of cargo capacity on the passenger flights between the Faroe Islands and Denmark will be somewhat remedied as Atlantic Airways it now operating Airbus A320, instead of Airbus A319, on the trunk route from the last days of 2016, and SAS will also bring in new capacity with the opening of flights from April 27, 2017, between Copenhagen Airport and Vagar Airport offering 12 weekly services also with Airbus A320 Family aircraft.
Today, Faroese seafood exporters are mainly sending their shipments by sea to the UK for uplift from London Heathrow and other airports, but with the opening of a new large production plant this week, the leading seafood exporter Bakkafrost is considering options for establishing freighter flights to achieve improved logistics solutions.
As said Bakkafrost's CEO, Regin Jacobsen in an interview with newstodate on January 17, 2017:
-As a first step, we will utilize the existing aircraft cargo capacity, and as the markets for our advanced new products develop we will consider the introduction of a dedicated freighter service which will, of course, require a considerable volume and a sound economic basis to secure a sustainable service. This phase may take months, or years, to develop.
Bakkafrost alone now produces around 56,000 tonnes of fresh salmon, and adding volumes handled for other producers the total Bakkafrost production will reach between 60-70,000 tonnes in 2017.
In 2016 total volumes of air cargo were down by 6.4 percent to 487 tonnes despite a marked growth during Q4.
The scarcity of cargo capacity on the passenger flights between the Faroe Islands and Denmark will be somewhat remedied as Atlantic Airways it now operating Airbus A320, instead of Airbus A319, on the trunk route from the last days of 2016, and SAS will also bring in new capacity with the opening of flights from April 27, 2017, between Copenhagen Airport and Vagar Airport offering 12 weekly services also with Airbus A320 Family aircraft.
Today, Faroese seafood exporters are mainly sending their shipments by sea to the UK for uplift from London Heathrow and other airports, but with the opening of a new large production plant this week, the leading seafood exporter Bakkafrost is considering options for establishing freighter flights to achieve improved logistics solutions.
As said Bakkafrost's CEO, Regin Jacobsen in an interview with newstodate on January 17, 2017:
-As a first step, we will utilize the existing aircraft cargo capacity, and as the markets for our advanced new products develop we will consider the introduction of a dedicated freighter service which will, of course, require a considerable volume and a sound economic basis to secure a sustainable service. This phase may take months, or years, to develop.
Bakkafrost alone now produces around 56,000 tonnes of fresh salmon, and adding volumes handled for other producers the total Bakkafrost production will reach between 60-70,000 tonnes in 2017.