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Aug 13, 2019 (newstodate): Latvia's Riga Airport saw its cargo volumes up by 12.8 percent, y-o-y, in July 2019.
A total of 2,218 tonnes of cargo was handled, including 1,257 tonnes of cargo and 960 tonnes of mail.
With these volumes in July, the airport has thus seen volumes through the first seven months of 2019 down by 5.3 percent, y-o-y, to 15,530 tonnes.
The trend is, however, steadily growing as statistics are now free from the impact of the pull-out from April 19, 2018, of Turkish Cargo's two weekly freighter services at Riga Airport since July 1, 2017, while the Russian carrier Atran Airlines, member of the Volga-Dnepr Group, has introduced a weekly freighter flight between Hangzhou, in China, and Riga Airport with a Boeing 737-800BCF providing up to 23 tonnes of cargo capacity for e-commerce shipments of Cainiao Network, the logistics arm of Alibaba Group.
The Atran Airlines freighter is operating via Moscow Vnukovo Airport offering exporters access to interline routes and CIS connections for shipments out of Riga, while incoming shipments through Riga Airport will be transferred to destinations in the EU markets.
A total of 2,218 tonnes of cargo was handled, including 1,257 tonnes of cargo and 960 tonnes of mail.
With these volumes in July, the airport has thus seen volumes through the first seven months of 2019 down by 5.3 percent, y-o-y, to 15,530 tonnes.
The trend is, however, steadily growing as statistics are now free from the impact of the pull-out from April 19, 2018, of Turkish Cargo's two weekly freighter services at Riga Airport since July 1, 2017, while the Russian carrier Atran Airlines, member of the Volga-Dnepr Group, has introduced a weekly freighter flight between Hangzhou, in China, and Riga Airport with a Boeing 737-800BCF providing up to 23 tonnes of cargo capacity for e-commerce shipments of Cainiao Network, the logistics arm of Alibaba Group.
The Atran Airlines freighter is operating via Moscow Vnukovo Airport offering exporters access to interline routes and CIS connections for shipments out of Riga, while incoming shipments through Riga Airport will be transferred to destinations in the EU markets.