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Mar 29, 2017 (newstodate): Turkish Cargo has now added its second freighter flights at Norway's Oslo Airport on Tuesdays.
The new flight was launched on Tuesday March 27, 2017, adding to Turkish Cargo's first freighter operation on Fridays since March 10, 2017.
Both flights are operated with the company's Airbus A330-200F freighters.
With this latest addition, Oslo Gardermoen now has nine freighter operations on Tuesdays, including two Qatar Cargo, and one each from Emirates SkyCargo, AirBridgeCargo, Cargolux and Korean Air Cargo as well as DHL and UPS that also lifts volumes of Norwegian seafood exports.
Next to come also on Tuesdays is a weekly freighter service from Lakselv into Oslo Airport from April 25, 2017, operated by DHL with an Airbus A300F, bringing to total to 10 freighters on Tuesdays.
At the recent seafood air logistics seminar in Oslo, 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, said Mr Staalberg.
Looming on the horizon over Oslo Airport is now also the possibility of Ethiopian Airlines that is reportedly mulling plans for introduction of a freighter service to pick up Norwegian seafood for transfer via Addis Abeba later in 2017.
The new flight was launched on Tuesday March 27, 2017, adding to Turkish Cargo's first freighter operation on Fridays since March 10, 2017.
Both flights are operated with the company's Airbus A330-200F freighters.
With this latest addition, Oslo Gardermoen now has nine freighter operations on Tuesdays, including two Qatar Cargo, and one each from Emirates SkyCargo, AirBridgeCargo, Cargolux and Korean Air Cargo as well as DHL and UPS that also lifts volumes of Norwegian seafood exports.
Next to come also on Tuesdays is a weekly freighter service from Lakselv into Oslo Airport from April 25, 2017, operated by DHL with an Airbus A300F, bringing to total to 10 freighters on Tuesdays.
At the recent seafood air logistics seminar in Oslo, 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, said Mr Staalberg.
Looming on the horizon over Oslo Airport is now also the possibility of Ethiopian Airlines that is reportedly mulling plans for introduction of a freighter service to pick up Norwegian seafood for transfer via Addis Abeba later in 2017.