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Jan 11, 2024 (newstodate): Norway's Oslo Airport rounded off 2023 with a two percent increase in flown cargo volumes compared to the preceding year.
A total of 170,343 tonnes of cargo was handled at Oslo, the bulk of which, 158,742 tonnes, was international cargo that increased by three percent in Jan-Dec '23.
December 2023 alone was performing better, rising 14 percent, y-o-y, to 15,385 tonnes of which 14,408 tonnes were international cargo increasing by 16 percent.
New in November 2023 was the return of Emirates SkyCargo with a weekly Boeing 777F freighter service from Oslo to Dubai adding some 100 tonnes to the capacity on the airline's passenger flights on the route, each lifting 30-40 tonnes of Norwegian seafood.
Compared to 2019, flown cargo volumes in 2023 at Oslo Airport were however still 5.7 percent behind pre-Covid levels - and only 1.8 percent up on the corona-hit 2020, when volumes were down to 167,352 tonnes.
And despite a sound hike in December '23, volumes of flown international cargo handled at Oslo Airport were actually still 427 tonnes less than the 14,845 tonnes handled in December 2020.