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Mar 17, 2017 (newstodate): A sustained rise in Norway's already large seafood export volumes by air will put great strains on the country's infrastructure.
Today, the bulk of the production is located in the country's northern regions requiring seafood shipments to be trucked into Oslo Gardermoen Airport on two-day road travels.
-With a five-percent annual increase in these volumes, seafood export by air will rise to 300,000 tonnes per year in 2016, from today's 180,000 tonnes, Knut Eriksmoen, Schenker Head of Air & Ocean Freight, said in his concluding remarks at the recent seafood air logistics seminar in Oslo.
-Combined, organic growth and the opening of new markets will boost the volume of trucking out of Norway as well as cause a hike in air cargo rates as demand will continue to outstrip uplift capacity from Norway.
-We are however seeing uplift capacity from Oslo increasing and provided exporters are willing to pay, capacity will continue to grow as well. Uplift capacity always comes at a price due to the fact that empty freighter ferry flights into Oslo put the profitability of the entire operation under pressure.
-Presupposing a firm commitment from the forwarders, I also expect that we will wee the return of new gateways complementing Oslo Airport. The increase in production in the north will make it increasingly impossible to fly all seafood shipments out of Oslo.
-At an annual growth rate at five percent, an extra 120,000 tonnes of seafood in 2016 will require a huge growth in uplift capacity and this can not be provided by Oslo Airport alone, said Mr Eriksmoen.
Today, the bulk of the production is located in the country's northern regions requiring seafood shipments to be trucked into Oslo Gardermoen Airport on two-day road travels.
-With a five-percent annual increase in these volumes, seafood export by air will rise to 300,000 tonnes per year in 2016, from today's 180,000 tonnes, Knut Eriksmoen, Schenker Head of Air & Ocean Freight, said in his concluding remarks at the recent seafood air logistics seminar in Oslo.
-Combined, organic growth and the opening of new markets will boost the volume of trucking out of Norway as well as cause a hike in air cargo rates as demand will continue to outstrip uplift capacity from Norway.
-We are however seeing uplift capacity from Oslo increasing and provided exporters are willing to pay, capacity will continue to grow as well. Uplift capacity always comes at a price due to the fact that empty freighter ferry flights into Oslo put the profitability of the entire operation under pressure.
-Presupposing a firm commitment from the forwarders, I also expect that we will wee the return of new gateways complementing Oslo Airport. The increase in production in the north will make it increasingly impossible to fly all seafood shipments out of Oslo.
-At an annual growth rate at five percent, an extra 120,000 tonnes of seafood in 2016 will require a huge growth in uplift capacity and this can not be provided by Oslo Airport alone, said Mr Eriksmoen.