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May 24, 2017 (newstodate): With the launch on May 23, 2017, of the new freighter service from Lakselv to Oslo Airport, Norway's exports of King Crabs have found a new short-cut to the Asian marketplace.
-We are very satisfied with the opening of the new service, and everything went well with the start of the weekly flight, says Bjorn Ronald Olsen, Cape Fish CEO.
-The Tuesday operation connects with especially Korean Air Cargo's freighter flight from Oslo to Seoul in South Korea where we have set up a company, Cape Fish International in cooperation with a local partner, to handle the onward logistics into the individual Asian markets easily covered by Korean Air Cargo flights.
-For a start, we calculate to lift some 10-15 tonnes of King Crabs on the Lakselv freighter, so the long-term sustainability of the service will depend also on attracting exporters of other commodities. But we are optimistic about the chances for this service to settle in well.
-In addition to the shipments via Oslo by air from Lakselv we are now trucking to Helsinki for uplift on Finnair's excellent Asian route network with passenger aircraft that can carry some 5-10 tonnes of King Crab shipments per flight. Modest volumes, but on the other hand we benefit from the high frequency of the Asian flights.
-Trucking times to Helsinki are about 10 hours - only half of the trucking times to Oslo. So with this solution we can ship the crabs directly upon arrival at Helsinki instead of having to store them temporarily in basins as is the case with trucking into Oslo. This has a huge impact on the total shelf life of the product, says Mr Olsen.
-We are very satisfied with the opening of the new service, and everything went well with the start of the weekly flight, says Bjorn Ronald Olsen, Cape Fish CEO.
-The Tuesday operation connects with especially Korean Air Cargo's freighter flight from Oslo to Seoul in South Korea where we have set up a company, Cape Fish International in cooperation with a local partner, to handle the onward logistics into the individual Asian markets easily covered by Korean Air Cargo flights.
-For a start, we calculate to lift some 10-15 tonnes of King Crabs on the Lakselv freighter, so the long-term sustainability of the service will depend also on attracting exporters of other commodities. But we are optimistic about the chances for this service to settle in well.
-In addition to the shipments via Oslo by air from Lakselv we are now trucking to Helsinki for uplift on Finnair's excellent Asian route network with passenger aircraft that can carry some 5-10 tonnes of King Crab shipments per flight. Modest volumes, but on the other hand we benefit from the high frequency of the Asian flights.
-Trucking times to Helsinki are about 10 hours - only half of the trucking times to Oslo. So with this solution we can ship the crabs directly upon arrival at Helsinki instead of having to store them temporarily in basins as is the case with trucking into Oslo. This has a huge impact on the total shelf life of the product, says Mr Olsen.