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May 28, 2014 (newstodate): The new carrier to provide Northern Norway's Lakselv Banak Airport with direct freighter capacity to the USA and Asia is expected to present itself at Oslo Gardermoen Airport within only few weeks.
From the start, Viking International Airlines will introduce Boeing 747 freighter flights to Asia and the USA from September 2014, planning to add flights with Boeing 747 Combi aircraft at a later stage, adding passenger transportation to obtain a better balance between in- and outgoing flights.
Today, Norway's exporters of seafood, primarily the salmon, rely on two days' trucking of shipments from the production sites in the northern part of the country into Oslo Gardermoen Airport for uplift by freighter and passenger aircraft to the world's marketplaces.
This has so far constituted for bottle-neck for seafood producers in the country's northernmost regions that have thus been able to export only to European market, or rely on services by smaller freighters from Lakselv Banak Airport to Oslo Gardermoen Airport.
Over the years, several project have been launched to offer freighter capacity from airports in the northern region including Luleaa Kallax Airport in Sweden - but all efforts have failed due to imbalance in the traffic.
If the new project proves a success it will be a strong competitor to today's freighter operators at Oslo Gardermoen Airport.
Serving Oslo Gardermoen Airport with freighter services now are Korean Air Cargo since March 2004, Asiana since September 2012, and Qatar Airways Cargo since January 2013.
From the start, Viking International Airlines will introduce Boeing 747 freighter flights to Asia and the USA from September 2014, planning to add flights with Boeing 747 Combi aircraft at a later stage, adding passenger transportation to obtain a better balance between in- and outgoing flights.
Today, Norway's exporters of seafood, primarily the salmon, rely on two days' trucking of shipments from the production sites in the northern part of the country into Oslo Gardermoen Airport for uplift by freighter and passenger aircraft to the world's marketplaces.
This has so far constituted for bottle-neck for seafood producers in the country's northernmost regions that have thus been able to export only to European market, or rely on services by smaller freighters from Lakselv Banak Airport to Oslo Gardermoen Airport.
Over the years, several project have been launched to offer freighter capacity from airports in the northern region including Luleaa Kallax Airport in Sweden - but all efforts have failed due to imbalance in the traffic.
If the new project proves a success it will be a strong competitor to today's freighter operators at Oslo Gardermoen Airport.
Serving Oslo Gardermoen Airport with freighter services now are Korean Air Cargo since March 2004, Asiana since September 2012, and Qatar Airways Cargo since January 2013.