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Oct 07, 2011 (newstodate): The Icelandic cargo GSSA and service provider Cargo Express is reporting success in the perishables sector.
-In cooperation with Spirit Air Cargo Handling at Copenhagen Airport and Blue Water Shipping, we have developed a product which allows us to move fresh fish from Iceland via Copenhagen airport for delivery all over Germany, Benelux and France early the following morning, Robert Tomasson, Cargo Express managing director and one of the company's founders in December 2008.
-We made a special agreement with Spirit to transfer the fish from aircraft to truck within two hours. Next, we operate a dedicated truck from the airport to the main distribution hub of Blue Water in time to meet the various departures of their European distribution network that leave late afternoon to all main seafood centers all over Europe, delivering the product just in time for the local distribution to supermarkets or restaurants.
-We have a similar set-up in the UK for our London flights. There we offer on-time delivery to seafood markets all over Great Britain and across the channel to France.
-This of course requires close coordination between all parties involved in this logistics chain as such transports are both time sensitive and temperature sensitive.
-Our over-all cargo revenues have increased by 33 percent, y-o-y, for the first nine months of 2011. Behind this growth are new contracts with various European mail services, more available cargo capacity over the summer months, and the new successful product lines such as the seafood export logistics from Iceland, says Mr Tomasson.
-In cooperation with Spirit Air Cargo Handling at Copenhagen Airport and Blue Water Shipping, we have developed a product which allows us to move fresh fish from Iceland via Copenhagen airport for delivery all over Germany, Benelux and France early the following morning, Robert Tomasson, Cargo Express managing director and one of the company's founders in December 2008.
-We made a special agreement with Spirit to transfer the fish from aircraft to truck within two hours. Next, we operate a dedicated truck from the airport to the main distribution hub of Blue Water in time to meet the various departures of their European distribution network that leave late afternoon to all main seafood centers all over Europe, delivering the product just in time for the local distribution to supermarkets or restaurants.
-We have a similar set-up in the UK for our London flights. There we offer on-time delivery to seafood markets all over Great Britain and across the channel to France.
-This of course requires close coordination between all parties involved in this logistics chain as such transports are both time sensitive and temperature sensitive.
-Our over-all cargo revenues have increased by 33 percent, y-o-y, for the first nine months of 2011. Behind this growth are new contracts with various European mail services, more available cargo capacity over the summer months, and the new successful product lines such as the seafood export logistics from Iceland, says Mr Tomasson.