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Jan 11, 2017 (newstodate): Plans are under evaluation for the start of a new freighter service catering to the needs of the Norwegian seafood exports.
The plans driven by Norway's seafood exporter Cermaq Group envisage setting up a dedicated freighter service at Norway's Lakselv Banak Airport in the Finnmark region, and Norwegian media have it that volumes would be around 110 tonnes per week on Boeing 747 freighters.
Apart from that, no verified details are yet available.
-Cermaq is currently evaluating various logistics and transportation alternatives closer to our production sites, and Lakselv Banak Airport is one of these alternatives. We are still early into the process and have no further comments, says Lise Bergan, Cermaq Group AS Corporate Affairs Director.
With a 2,788 m runway, the 5th longest in Norway, the airport has already been serving as point of departure for freighter operations.
The airport was used by a once-weekly Airbus A330-200F freighter service by Qatar Airways Cargo connecting Stavanger and Doha from November 3, 2014 til the start of S-15, and Lufthansa Cargo's weekly call with a Boeing 777F at Stavanger starting from November 8, 2014, and until the end of 2016 the airport also served North Cape's dedicated TU-204 freighter flights to Seoul, in South Korea.
Rumors of a decision on reducing the airport's runway length to 2,500 m have now been refuted by Avinor, confirming the airport's sustained ability to handling aircraft operations of all types.
The plans driven by Norway's seafood exporter Cermaq Group envisage setting up a dedicated freighter service at Norway's Lakselv Banak Airport in the Finnmark region, and Norwegian media have it that volumes would be around 110 tonnes per week on Boeing 747 freighters.
Apart from that, no verified details are yet available.
-Cermaq is currently evaluating various logistics and transportation alternatives closer to our production sites, and Lakselv Banak Airport is one of these alternatives. We are still early into the process and have no further comments, says Lise Bergan, Cermaq Group AS Corporate Affairs Director.
With a 2,788 m runway, the 5th longest in Norway, the airport has already been serving as point of departure for freighter operations.
The airport was used by a once-weekly Airbus A330-200F freighter service by Qatar Airways Cargo connecting Stavanger and Doha from November 3, 2014 til the start of S-15, and Lufthansa Cargo's weekly call with a Boeing 777F at Stavanger starting from November 8, 2014, and until the end of 2016 the airport also served North Cape's dedicated TU-204 freighter flights to Seoul, in South Korea.
Rumors of a decision on reducing the airport's runway length to 2,500 m have now been refuted by Avinor, confirming the airport's sustained ability to handling aircraft operations of all types.