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Jun 22, 2022 (newstodate): Plans for a scheduled freighter service in the Faroe Islands to lift seafood exports to the US market are now shaping up.
According to British media, Bakkafrost, the leading Faroese seafood exporter, has acquired one Boeing 757 aircraft for conversion to freighter version lifting some 35 tonnes of cargo, and poised to fly directly from Vagar Airport to a US airport, probably in New Jesey.
-With Bakkafrost's need for a steady flow of seafood exports to the USA, more than one weekly rotation is needed, indicating rather three or even more flights, as well as a routing with at least one additional en-route point on return flights from the USA to the Faroe Islands, Birgir Nielsen earlier told newstodate.
-One such destination on the return flight might indeed be a Danish airport, but this is also up in the air for the time being, says Mr Nielsen.
One industrial portal quoted Bakkafrost's CEO Regin Jacobsen as mentioning Glasgow, in Scotland, as an option for a destination on the flight back to the Faroe Islands, enabling the carrier to obtain a balanced operation.
Today, the bulk of imports to supply shops and retailers of commodities in the Faroe Islands are sourced in Denmark and transported by sea or, for the minor part, flown as belly cargo into Vagar Airport by Atlantic Airways
Over the last few decades, several 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.