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Sep 24, 2021 (newstodate): As airlines gradually return aircraft capacity to their core business, passenger transportation, the role of all-cargo operations declines correspondingly.
   This is felt by the Norwegian seafood exporters in the north of the country: Virgin Atlantic Cargo has definitively closed down its all-cargo operations at Harstad-Narvik Evenes Airport.
   In cooperation with Kuehne & Nagel Norway, Virgin Atlantic Cargo commenced scheduled all-cargo flights at Evenes Airport on February 3, 2021, after a series of test flights, offering two weekly rotations between London Heathrow and Evenes Airport with Boeing 787-9 aircraft per week, primarily to serve the Norwegian seafood exporters with onward transfer to the US market.  
   From July 2021, Virgin Atlantic Cargo replaced this with one weekly direct non-stop flight from Evenes to New York JFK to lift over 50 tonnes of seafood shipments into the US market on a Boeing 787-9 passenger aircraft, insead of the earlier indirect service via London.
   But later in the summer, Virgin Atlantic Cargo pulled out from this service, returning its aircraft to passenger services instead.