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Apr 13, 2018 (newstodate): Avinor is keen to further grow the provision of all-freighter services at Oslo Airport - but belly cargo remains a key solution to the country's seafood air logistics.
According to information provided by Avinor at the Schenker Seafood Air Logistics Conference in Oslo on April 11, 39 percent of the seafood airlifted from Oslo Airport in 2017 left on freighters performing 20 weekly flights out of the airport.
The bulk of the seafood shipments is thus lifted in the belly holds on passenger aircraft, and with the total volume of Norwegian seafood exports to grow by 500 percent over the next 30 years, demand for uplift will rise accordingly.
-Much talk about launching freighter flights directly out of Northern Norway is baseless, said Martin Langaas, Avinor Director Cargo and Route Development.
-The runway required for start of a fully loaded freighter exceeds the capacity available anywhere but at Oslo Airport. Add to this the needs for apron parking stands strong enough to sustain a large loaded freighter that will also require special loading equipment and 2-3 aircraft fueling vehicles.
-Add to this also the scarcity of Sibir overflight rights and the high costs involved by ferrying empty freighters into an airport for lifting seafood shipments, translating into rates that exporters will hardly accept.
-Already today, exporters of seafood in Northern Norway have access to some 40,000 tonnes of unused capacity on scheduled passenger flights by SAS, Norwegian and Wideroe - but are unwilling to pay the rates requested.
-So the solution is to focus on the use of the passenger aircraft belly cargo capacity at Oslo Airport, maybe coupled to use of short-haul freighters from airports near production sites into Oslo Airport where the traffic system keeps growing and where new long-haul flights are served with large and capacious aircraft, said Mr Langaas.
According to information provided by Avinor at the Schenker Seafood Air Logistics Conference in Oslo on April 11, 39 percent of the seafood airlifted from Oslo Airport in 2017 left on freighters performing 20 weekly flights out of the airport.
The bulk of the seafood shipments is thus lifted in the belly holds on passenger aircraft, and with the total volume of Norwegian seafood exports to grow by 500 percent over the next 30 years, demand for uplift will rise accordingly.
-Much talk about launching freighter flights directly out of Northern Norway is baseless, said Martin Langaas, Avinor Director Cargo and Route Development.
-The runway required for start of a fully loaded freighter exceeds the capacity available anywhere but at Oslo Airport. Add to this the needs for apron parking stands strong enough to sustain a large loaded freighter that will also require special loading equipment and 2-3 aircraft fueling vehicles.
-Add to this also the scarcity of Sibir overflight rights and the high costs involved by ferrying empty freighters into an airport for lifting seafood shipments, translating into rates that exporters will hardly accept.
-Already today, exporters of seafood in Northern Norway have access to some 40,000 tonnes of unused capacity on scheduled passenger flights by SAS, Norwegian and Wideroe - but are unwilling to pay the rates requested.
-So the solution is to focus on the use of the passenger aircraft belly cargo capacity at Oslo Airport, maybe coupled to use of short-haul freighters from airports near production sites into Oslo Airport where the traffic system keeps growing and where new long-haul flights are served with large and capacious aircraft, said Mr Langaas.