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Nov 10, 2021 (newstodate): Plans for a scheduled freighter service in the Faroe Islands to lift seafood exports to the US market remain firm as ever - but are facing the overriding universal obstacle: lack of available aircraft capacity.
   -There is no change of strategy; the need for uplift of seafood exports remains, and efforts and negotiations to source freighter capacity continue unabated - but all players in the market are scrambling to trace available aircraft, says  Birgir Nielsen, CEO of the yet-unnamed airline.
   -It is safe to conclude that we will at least not be able to launch services this year as was our hope; but beyond this we have no further info to provide on the project at this moment.
    Over the last few decades, many attempts have been made to set up a dedicated freighter service operating at Vagar Airport - but they failed, mostly due to lack of firm commitments among the exporters.
   This time is different, as the leading Faroese seafood producer and exporter, and among the world's five largest: Bakkafrost has signed up with a 100 percent firm commitment for the full export capacity and also posting as the single largest investor in the venture, with Bakkafrost CEO Regin Jabobsen to chair the Board that will also comprise well-known professionals including Hedin Krett, Andrew Djurhuus, Hans Meinhard á Hogaboli, and Birgir Nielsen who will be CEO of the new airline.