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Mar 09, 2017 (newstodate): Demand in the Asian markets is a key driver for Norway's booming exports of seafood. At the same time this generates a most uneven pressure on the handling side at Gardermoen Perishables Center.
Speaking at yesterday's seafood air logistics seminar, arranged by Schenker Norway, Torgil Staalberg, GPC Managing Director, focused on the Tuesday Challenge.
-During 2014-16, we have grown our volumes from 1,100 tonnes per week to 2,200 tonnes. 57 percent of this now leaves GPC by air while the remaining 43 percent leave by truck for uplift from continental gateways.
-The challenge is that as Asian customers need the seafood shipments on the shelves for weekend sales, the shipments will have to leave Oslo on Tuesdays, and 75 percent of our tonnage is thus handled during only nine hours, from four in the morning till one o'clock on Tuesday afternoons.
-Another issue is that up to 33 percent of the shipments to go on Tuesdays will arrive at GPC already on the preceding Friday, putting strains on the warehousing capacity of GPC. Also 20 percent of the shipments will arrive two days before, but GPS is actually not designed for storing and warehousing.
-Add to this that booked shipments do not always arrive at all, seafood transport boxes are not always sufficiently strong to manage the handling, and it all signals a strong pressure on our terminal, said Mr Staalberg.
Speaking at yesterday's seafood air logistics seminar, arranged by Schenker Norway, Torgil Staalberg, GPC Managing Director, focused on the Tuesday Challenge.
-During 2014-16, we have grown our volumes from 1,100 tonnes per week to 2,200 tonnes. 57 percent of this now leaves GPC by air while the remaining 43 percent leave by truck for uplift from continental gateways.
-The challenge is that as Asian customers need the seafood shipments on the shelves for weekend sales, the shipments will have to leave Oslo on Tuesdays, and 75 percent of our tonnage is thus handled during only nine hours, from four in the morning till one o'clock on Tuesday afternoons.
-Another issue is that up to 33 percent of the shipments to go on Tuesdays will arrive at GPC already on the preceding Friday, putting strains on the warehousing capacity of GPC. Also 20 percent of the shipments will arrive two days before, but GPS is actually not designed for storing and warehousing.
-Add to this that booked shipments do not always arrive at all, seafood transport boxes are not always sufficiently strong to manage the handling, and it all signals a strong pressure on our terminal, said Mr Staalberg.