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Aug 17, 2021 (newstodate): Stakeholders in Norway's seafood industry can now look forward to realization of long-nurtured hopes for a modern and growth-oriented infrastructure adjacent to Oslo Airport.
   Boasting the name "World Seafood Center", the coming new facility to be built by the urban property developer Oslo Airport City plans to open for business in 2023 after the start of construction in Q1/2022.
    The World Seafood Center will comprise 40,000 m2 terminal space, of which 20,000 m2 are already taken on an 18-years lease contract with an option for further expansion by GPC, Gardermoen Perishables Center owned Schenker Norway, DHL and the Norwegian freight forwarder Air Cargo Logistics.
   -This is indeed a most welcome long-term oriented solution that will open up for new possibilities, new products and work methods turning the focus from handling of incoming seafood shipments by trucks for palletization during stressed peaks, to a focus on outgoing palletized shipments for uplift from Oslo Airport, only some 10 minutes away from the terminal, says Torgil Staalberg, GPC Managing Director.
   -So far, we have been limited by scarcity of space and no prospects for expansion and development. With the coming new facility, we can operate more flexibly between handling of seafood air cargo shipments and shipments for trucking to European destinations, handled at a transshipment terminal as a new service by GPC.
   -Also, with the coming expansion of our terminal we will be in a position to take in new customers, which is hardly possible today, says Mr Staalberg, who expects to see the opening of the new GPC facility by June/July 2023.