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Feb 03, 2017 (newstodate): Norway can seemingly consume any freighter capacity invested in freighter flights to carry seafood shipments to the global marketplace, and Avinor has now outlined a new incentive scheme for attracting new freighter services.
Avinor will thus subsidize airlines to open up new freighter flights with at least one weekly rotation from its airports, primarily Oslo Airport, to destinations currently not served, or not served with at least one weekly rotation over the past 12 months.
New operators on routes between two destinations already served by existing operators will not quality for subsidies, and flights during night curfew between 24:00 and 06:00 will also not qualify for subsidies.
In the current schedule, Oslo Airport is handling 11 weekly freighter flights including Qatar Airways with six weekly Airbus A330-200F/Boeing 777F operations, Korean Cargo with four weekly Boeing 777F operations, and Emirates SkyCargo with one weekly Boeing 777F operation.
In 2016, Oslo Airport has seen the volume of weekly freighter operations increasing by 85 percent y-o-y, while capacity in tonnage available has increased by 102 percent.
-Norwegian seafood is today the single largest air cargo commodity in the North European markets, with some 200,000 tonnes by air in 2016. We estimate a growth by some 10-15 percent in volumes annually, so just to keep the proportion of flown seafood at today's levels will require an extra 22,000 tonnes capacity in 2017, meaning that we will need at least two extra weekly freighters just to keep pace, Martin Langaas, Avinor Cargo Director told newstodate in October 2016.
-The volumes of Norwegian seafood exports by air are really booming; if today some 30 percent of the seafood export volumes are lifted by air and the remaining 70 percent transported by trucks, we would drop to some 28 percent by air if we cannot add at least two more weekly freighters per year, Mr Langaas said.
Avinor will thus subsidize airlines to open up new freighter flights with at least one weekly rotation from its airports, primarily Oslo Airport, to destinations currently not served, or not served with at least one weekly rotation over the past 12 months.
New operators on routes between two destinations already served by existing operators will not quality for subsidies, and flights during night curfew between 24:00 and 06:00 will also not qualify for subsidies.
In the current schedule, Oslo Airport is handling 11 weekly freighter flights including Qatar Airways with six weekly Airbus A330-200F/Boeing 777F operations, Korean Cargo with four weekly Boeing 777F operations, and Emirates SkyCargo with one weekly Boeing 777F operation.
In 2016, Oslo Airport has seen the volume of weekly freighter operations increasing by 85 percent y-o-y, while capacity in tonnage available has increased by 102 percent.
-Norwegian seafood is today the single largest air cargo commodity in the North European markets, with some 200,000 tonnes by air in 2016. We estimate a growth by some 10-15 percent in volumes annually, so just to keep the proportion of flown seafood at today's levels will require an extra 22,000 tonnes capacity in 2017, meaning that we will need at least two extra weekly freighters just to keep pace, Martin Langaas, Avinor Cargo Director told newstodate in October 2016.
-The volumes of Norwegian seafood exports by air are really booming; if today some 30 percent of the seafood export volumes are lifted by air and the remaining 70 percent transported by trucks, we would drop to some 28 percent by air if we cannot add at least two more weekly freighters per year, Mr Langaas said.