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Jun 30, 2022 (newstodate): ASR Cargo Center, at Finland's Helsinki Airport, has named a new managing director: Samuli Naskali.
Mr Naskali has served with ASR Cargo Center from 2014, starting on the floor as warehouse worker and moving to the position as Operations Supervisor from March 2019.
Established at the airport in 2014 by the Hong Kong-based ASR Holding's European subsidiary ASR Europe in 2014, ASR Cargo Center with Pasi Nopanen as its first managing director initially provided only off-airport services with a focus on trucked airfreight handling and logistics.
But from March 1, 2018, Aviator Finland and ASR Cargo Center started cooperating to offer airline customers joint on-airport cargo handling at Finnair Cargo's former terminal at Helsinki Airport, left vacant after Finnair launched its new COOL Nordic cargo terminal from January 8, 2018.
In February 2020, ASR Cargo Center and Airpro also signed a cooperation agreement allowing Finavia's handling company Airpro to expand into cargo handling at Helsinki Airport, while ASR Cargo Center gained access to a new potential airline customer portfolio.
ASR Cargo Center's launched on-airport cargo handling with Lufthansa Cargo as its first customer and has since grown its customer portfolio - from January 1, 2022, adding Japan Airlines as the latest new airline customer.