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Apr 26, 2018 (newstodate): While Avinor keeps a strong focus on seafood air logistics at Oslo Airport, stakeholders in the seafood industry will not abandon hopes for cargo uplift directly out of Northern Norway.
Three Avinor airports in Northern Norway, close to the seafood production sites, are potentially capable of handling operations by large freighter aircraft - the airports at Eveness, Bodoe and Lakselv, all with runways around 2,800m.
-In principle, I would say that Evenes Airport would be capable of serving a fully-loaded seafood freighter when it comes to factors including runway, apron, fueling and other services, but it would eventually be up to an airline to decide if Evenes lives up to its operational requirements, says Anne-Britt Bakken, Evenes Airport Manager.
-Starting in 2004, FedEx for a period operated a once-weekly MD-11F flight from Evenes to Tokyo Narita via Anchorage, but today we do not have any scheduled commercial freighters at Evenes, while there are several ad-hoc military AN-124 freighter operations proving that the airport can indeed handle large cargo flights.
-Launching a freighter service at Evenes would require not least full cooperation from forwarders and shippers willing to accept the costs involved, including establishing pertinent infrastructure including terminal facilities up to VET standards.
-With the abundance of southbound trucking capacity due to the large volumes of scheduled northbound transports, today's trucking costs are very low and easily accepted by the forwarders. A direct uplift from an airport in the north of the country would entail significantly higher costs while of course securing a shorter total transport time to the Asian markets.
-One more crucial factor to be taken into consideration is the limited capacity available through Russia's Sibir air lanes which would be an issue for the airline to cope with.
-In short, direct cargo uplift on freighters from Northern Norway may be a vision, but it is a complex issue before an concrete business case could be established, says Ms Bakken.
Three Avinor airports in Northern Norway, close to the seafood production sites, are potentially capable of handling operations by large freighter aircraft - the airports at Eveness, Bodoe and Lakselv, all with runways around 2,800m.
-In principle, I would say that Evenes Airport would be capable of serving a fully-loaded seafood freighter when it comes to factors including runway, apron, fueling and other services, but it would eventually be up to an airline to decide if Evenes lives up to its operational requirements, says Anne-Britt Bakken, Evenes Airport Manager.
-Starting in 2004, FedEx for a period operated a once-weekly MD-11F flight from Evenes to Tokyo Narita via Anchorage, but today we do not have any scheduled commercial freighters at Evenes, while there are several ad-hoc military AN-124 freighter operations proving that the airport can indeed handle large cargo flights.
-Launching a freighter service at Evenes would require not least full cooperation from forwarders and shippers willing to accept the costs involved, including establishing pertinent infrastructure including terminal facilities up to VET standards.
-With the abundance of southbound trucking capacity due to the large volumes of scheduled northbound transports, today's trucking costs are very low and easily accepted by the forwarders. A direct uplift from an airport in the north of the country would entail significantly higher costs while of course securing a shorter total transport time to the Asian markets.
-One more crucial factor to be taken into consideration is the limited capacity available through Russia's Sibir air lanes which would be an issue for the airline to cope with.
-In short, direct cargo uplift on freighters from Northern Norway may be a vision, but it is a complex issue before an concrete business case could be established, says Ms Bakken.