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Apr 18, 2018 (newstodate): Leroy is a key exporter of Norwegian seafood, in 2017 producing a total of 350,000 tonnes of seafood, 43 percent of which was salmon.
The fresh salmon finds a key market in Japan that has been a focus market for Leroy for decades - in earlier days flown by chartered IL-76 freighters from Aeroflot directly out of various Norwegian airports. In total, some 1,000 such operations were performed until the IL-76 was banned in European airspace after the implementation of stricter airport noise regulations from Spring 2002.
Now Leroy is sending salmon to the Asian and Japanese markets via Helsinki Airport for uplift on Finnair's and JAL's Asian route network.
-Transport trough Helsinki enables us to deliver fresh salmon from the most remote areas of Norway to the main airports in Asia within approximately 36 hours, says Hans Petter Vestre, Leroy Seafood Team Manager-Airborne seafood.
-Trucking from our factory in Skjervoy-Troms takes about 19 hours and we load our cargo onto passenger flights operated by Finnair and JAL with destination Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya as well as other main airports in Asia. If the truck would drive towards Oslo instead of Helsinki it would be in Mid-Norway by the time it arrives in Helsinki.
-The fish that we pack in our factory in Skjervoy on Monday morning will therefore arrive to for example Japan on Wednesday morning early, or Tuesday-Thursday, Wednesday-Friday etc. This is faster than any other existing solutions from Norway today.
-We have a long-term cooperation with allocated space with Finnair and we are probably by far their main cargo customer for salmon. We have great expectations to their new and modern terminal and believe that it in the future will be of great importance for handling our delicate products in a safe and efficient way, says mr Vestre.
Mr Vestre was one of the key speakers at last week's Schenker Seafood Air Logistics Seminar at Oslo.
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The fresh salmon finds a key market in Japan that has been a focus market for Leroy for decades - in earlier days flown by chartered IL-76 freighters from Aeroflot directly out of various Norwegian airports. In total, some 1,000 such operations were performed until the IL-76 was banned in European airspace after the implementation of stricter airport noise regulations from Spring 2002.
Now Leroy is sending salmon to the Asian and Japanese markets via Helsinki Airport for uplift on Finnair's and JAL's Asian route network.
-Transport trough Helsinki enables us to deliver fresh salmon from the most remote areas of Norway to the main airports in Asia within approximately 36 hours, says Hans Petter Vestre, Leroy Seafood Team Manager-Airborne seafood.
-Trucking from our factory in Skjervoy-Troms takes about 19 hours and we load our cargo onto passenger flights operated by Finnair and JAL with destination Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya as well as other main airports in Asia. If the truck would drive towards Oslo instead of Helsinki it would be in Mid-Norway by the time it arrives in Helsinki.
-The fish that we pack in our factory in Skjervoy on Monday morning will therefore arrive to for example Japan on Wednesday morning early, or Tuesday-Thursday, Wednesday-Friday etc. This is faster than any other existing solutions from Norway today.
-We have a long-term cooperation with allocated space with Finnair and we are probably by far their main cargo customer for salmon. We have great expectations to their new and modern terminal and believe that it in the future will be of great importance for handling our delicate products in a safe and efficient way, says mr Vestre.
Mr Vestre was one of the key speakers at last week's Schenker Seafood Air Logistics Seminar at Oslo.
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