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Sep 21, 2017 (newstodate): Latvia's Riga Airport continues to show growth in cargo volumes.
In August 2017, the airport handled a total of 2,061 tonnes of cargo and mail, an increase by 17.1 percent, including 951 tonnes of imports, up 28 percent, and 1,105 tonnes of exports, up nine percent, y-o-y.
Cargo shipments, import and export included, were up 24 percent and mail shipments increased by six percent.
During January-August 2017, the airport has seen its total cargo and mail volumes up by 10.7 percent, y-o-y, to 14,256 tonnes.
Contributing to the positive growth is the launch of Turkish Cargo's freighter flights on the route between Istanbul and Riga Airport with two weekly Airbus A330-200F rotations.
The future of these Turkish flights are, however, not secured as evaluations are still ongoing, pending a subsequent decision to either stay at Riga Airport or move to Vilnius Airport that was the original choice before runway reconstruction works forced Turkish Cargo to direct the freighter service to Riga Airport instead.
Vilnius Airport would move the service closer to serving also the Polish and Belarus markets, while the service at Riga Airport is rather close to Turkish Cargo's other Nordic freighter operations at Helsinki, served three times weekly.
In August 2017, the airport handled a total of 2,061 tonnes of cargo and mail, an increase by 17.1 percent, including 951 tonnes of imports, up 28 percent, and 1,105 tonnes of exports, up nine percent, y-o-y.
Cargo shipments, import and export included, were up 24 percent and mail shipments increased by six percent.
During January-August 2017, the airport has seen its total cargo and mail volumes up by 10.7 percent, y-o-y, to 14,256 tonnes.
Contributing to the positive growth is the launch of Turkish Cargo's freighter flights on the route between Istanbul and Riga Airport with two weekly Airbus A330-200F rotations.
The future of these Turkish flights are, however, not secured as evaluations are still ongoing, pending a subsequent decision to either stay at Riga Airport or move to Vilnius Airport that was the original choice before runway reconstruction works forced Turkish Cargo to direct the freighter service to Riga Airport instead.
Vilnius Airport would move the service closer to serving also the Polish and Belarus markets, while the service at Riga Airport is rather close to Turkish Cargo's other Nordic freighter operations at Helsinki, served three times weekly.