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Jan 15, 2020 (newstodate): With a total of 27,265 tonnes of cargo handled during January-December 2019, Riga Airport did see its total volumes down by 3.5 percent, y-o-y.
The annual statistics 2019 thus remained tainted by the pull-out from April 19, 2018, of Turkish Cargo's two weekly freighter services at Riga Airport since July 1, 2017, that made the January-April 2019 statistics less indicative of the real performance, compared to 2018.
In May 2019, Atran Airlines, member of the Volga-Dnepr Group, launched a weekly Boeing 737-800BCF freighter flight at Riga Airport, feeding via Moscow the Group's freighter service to Hangzhou, in China, providing up to 23 tonnes of cargo capacity for e-commerce shipments of Cainiao Network, the logistics arm of Alibaba Group.
May-July thus saw two-digit cargo growth returning to Riga Airport, but after this the positive trend eased significantly, with two out of the five remaining months even below 2018-levels, showing the effects from the Turkish Cargo freighter operation.
The annual statistics 2019 thus remained tainted by the pull-out from April 19, 2018, of Turkish Cargo's two weekly freighter services at Riga Airport since July 1, 2017, that made the January-April 2019 statistics less indicative of the real performance, compared to 2018.
In May 2019, Atran Airlines, member of the Volga-Dnepr Group, launched a weekly Boeing 737-800BCF freighter flight at Riga Airport, feeding via Moscow the Group's freighter service to Hangzhou, in China, providing up to 23 tonnes of cargo capacity for e-commerce shipments of Cainiao Network, the logistics arm of Alibaba Group.
May-July thus saw two-digit cargo growth returning to Riga Airport, but after this the positive trend eased significantly, with two out of the five remaining months even below 2018-levels, showing the effects from the Turkish Cargo freighter operation.