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Jan 19, 2023 (newstodate): Never keen to hand out concrete figures, the Latvian carrier airBaltic has revealed a glimpse of its performance in air cargo 2022.
   According to the carrier, a total of "more than" 10,000 tonnes of cargo and mail was carried in 2022.
   This would correspond to an increase by about 10 percent, y-o-y, but still some 33 percent below volumes in pre-Covid 2019 when 14,829 tonnes of cargo and mail were carried.
   Mail has always played a strong role in airBaltic's cargo; in 2021 the carrier transported 750,000 mail bags against 640,000 in 2021.   
   And according to other figures, airBaltic's air mail volumes accounted for 65 percent of the total cargo in 2019, dropping to 35 percent in 2020 as the passenger traffic shrank due to the pandemic, but probably rising to around 45 percent in 2022 as traffic picked up again.  
   In 2021, "more than" 100,000 mail bags, approximately 600 tonnes, originated from Ukraine, due to the cooperation with Ukraine's postal company UkrPoshta in carrying postal shipments from Ukraine by a regular truck line Kyiv-Riga for uplift at Riga Airport to flights on airBaltic's route network.  
   In 2022, Riga Airport handled a total of 21,219 tonnes of cargo, indicating that airBaltic accounted for "some" 52 percent of the market