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Feb 24, 2014 (newstodate): Greenland has huge potentials in seafood export, but air cargo plays only an insignificant role in this business.
-The bottle-neck is the infrastructure of Greenland where shipments must be carried first on small turboprop aircraft into the Atlantic gateway at Kangerlussuaq where they are then taken to Copenhagen Airport in Denmark before the eventual flights to the import stations, says Henrik Leth, Polar Seafood chairman.
-This is the situation today, and I do not foresee any change in this on the horizon. Of course, Greenland has the seafood products in demand on the global marketplace, but any lesson from Iceland and Norway tells that revenues for airlines are not attractive enough to warrant the investment in a freighter operation to carry Greenland seafood.
-Actually the issue has been brought forward several times in Greenland, and Royal Greenland was engaged in negotiations under a project some years ago, but the efforts were fruitless.
-Greenland's seafood export is today focused on sea transportation and I see no signs of this to change, says Mr Leth.
-The bottle-neck is the infrastructure of Greenland where shipments must be carried first on small turboprop aircraft into the Atlantic gateway at Kangerlussuaq where they are then taken to Copenhagen Airport in Denmark before the eventual flights to the import stations, says Henrik Leth, Polar Seafood chairman.
-This is the situation today, and I do not foresee any change in this on the horizon. Of course, Greenland has the seafood products in demand on the global marketplace, but any lesson from Iceland and Norway tells that revenues for airlines are not attractive enough to warrant the investment in a freighter operation to carry Greenland seafood.
-Actually the issue has been brought forward several times in Greenland, and Royal Greenland was engaged in negotiations under a project some years ago, but the efforts were fruitless.
-Greenland's seafood export is today focused on sea transportation and I see no signs of this to change, says Mr Leth.