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Feb 01, 2024 (newstodate): Lithuania's Siauliai Airport is determined to build a position in the country's air cargo market.
   Last year, the Board of Siauliai International Airport approved the airport’s strategy for 2023–2025, outlining steps to achieve the long-term strategic goal of becoming a growing cargo airport in the region.
   All plots within the airport apron area are already taken, and an auction for the last remaining plot of 2.3 hectares allocated to cargo and logistics activities was opened in October 2023.  
   Hopes were to attract investors to set up new cargo-related business at the airport. These hopes were however not fulfilled.
   -Unfortunately, the tender did not attract any participants. The investment fund which was very much interested in participation backed off at the last moment, claiming that they were not ready yet for this project, says Aurelija Kuezada, Siauliai Airport Director.
   -Despite this negative outcome, we shall announce a new auction within a few weeks, with the hope that this time we will succeed.
   -We provide a full package of ground handling; all airport infrastructure is in place, and the airport operates a 3,500 m CAT 1 runway - the longest in the Baltic region - and a second 3,280 m runway. Due to our location, no restrictions on air traffic apply, says Ms Kuezada.
    In 2022, the freight forwarding company Rava Cargo opened a neutral customs warehouse at the airport, becoming the first commercial cargo operator at Siauliai Airport.
   Often called "Lithuania's fourth international Airport", Siauliai is independent of the management by the state-owned company Lithuanian Airports that controls the country's other international airports at Vilnius, Kaunas and Palanga.