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Mar 03, 2021 (newstodate): While limited in volumes, cargo plays a key role in developing Sweden's community-owned Jonkoping Airport.
   -As all passenger traffic came to a standstill in 2020, the demand for air cargo uplift remained. So much has depended on the integrator traffic by FedEx, DANX and time:matters, says  Henrik Alverdal, Jonkoping Airport Marketing Manager.
   -But in December we did see a new cargo traffic at Jonkoping Airport as scheduled chartered traffic with a small Cessna aircraft was opened to bring coronavirus tests to Augsburg, in Germany.
   -In total, Jonkoping Airport handled 2,901 tonnes of air cargo in 2020, which was a modest decline by six percent, y-o-y.
   -Now, much effort is invested in new projects to generate  cargo traffic at Jonkoping. One project concerns plans to open up all-cargo traffic between Jonkoping and Skellefteaa, in Sweden's northern region, where forwarders, shippers and the local government work together with us to find ways of setting up and supporting a viable freighter service.
   -The demand is definitely strong in Skellefteaa and the region that today has no direct all-cargo capacity. The challenge remains to find a similar market for the southbound service to Jonkoping, to obtain a balanced operation.
   -Another project still very much on the agenda concerns the opening of an all-cargo service between Riga, in Latvia,  and Jonkoping, and talks are still going on with potential airline partners, says Mr Alverdal.