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Jan 21, 2019 (newstodate): A rather unique situation is evolving in Norway where Avinor is openly criticizing the country's seafood forwarders and shippers for "cowboy-style" business conduct.
Speaking at a recent seafood industry event, Avinor's Martin Langaas, Director Traffic Develoment & Cargo, aired the opinion that forwarders shop around for saving the last dime, changing from direct air uplift out of the country's airports to trucking into continental airports, canceling bookings at short notice thus causing airlines to loose critical revenues.
-The condition for maintaining direct cargo capacity to overseas destinations is that local seafood operators contribute by accepting a higher rate for their shipments and commit to their bookings and reservations, said Mr Langaas.
The criticism is strongly refuted by a leading logistics provider to the Norwegian seafood industry, DB Schenker, in an interview with the Norwegian media ilaks.
-We do not recognize the view that operators in this business cancel or change their logistics for the sake of saving a few dimes, says Knut Eriksmoen, DB Schenker CEO, in the article.
-Avinor is a state-owned operator of airports managing the infrastructure for air passengers and cargo, and I find it highly interesting that they present such opinions without a detailed knowledge about the air cargo market.
The two conflicting opinions are sure to be further elaborated upon at two forthcoming events in March 2019 - first at DB Schenker's annual Seafood Air Logistics Conference on March 27, 2019, followed by the annual Nordic Air Cargo Symposium, arranged by Euroavia, on March 29, 2019 - both event taking place in Oslo.
Speaking at a recent seafood industry event, Avinor's Martin Langaas, Director Traffic Develoment & Cargo, aired the opinion that forwarders shop around for saving the last dime, changing from direct air uplift out of the country's airports to trucking into continental airports, canceling bookings at short notice thus causing airlines to loose critical revenues.
-The condition for maintaining direct cargo capacity to overseas destinations is that local seafood operators contribute by accepting a higher rate for their shipments and commit to their bookings and reservations, said Mr Langaas.
The criticism is strongly refuted by a leading logistics provider to the Norwegian seafood industry, DB Schenker, in an interview with the Norwegian media ilaks.
-We do not recognize the view that operators in this business cancel or change their logistics for the sake of saving a few dimes, says Knut Eriksmoen, DB Schenker CEO, in the article.
-Avinor is a state-owned operator of airports managing the infrastructure for air passengers and cargo, and I find it highly interesting that they present such opinions without a detailed knowledge about the air cargo market.
The two conflicting opinions are sure to be further elaborated upon at two forthcoming events in March 2019 - first at DB Schenker's annual Seafood Air Logistics Conference on March 27, 2019, followed by the annual Nordic Air Cargo Symposium, arranged by Euroavia, on March 29, 2019 - both event taking place in Oslo.