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May 17, 2019 (newstodate): The coming airport infrastructure now being designed in Greenland will offer new opportunities for Air Greenland in the air cargo market as well.
Today, Greenland's only Atlantic airport with traffic from Denmark is the outlying Kangerlussuaq Airport in the south, which requires transfer of cargo on smaller aircraft for shipments to and from other cities in Greenland, notably Nuuk.
With the new infrastructure in place, international flights can be operated at a new Nuuk Airport as well as at Ilulissat, a coastal town in western Greenland with significant seafood industries, with both airports to be equipped with a 2,200 m runway.
-Greenland and Air Greenland are facing an exciting future with the new airport infrastructure. However, many major issues have not yet been settled in sufficient details to allow Air Greenland to formulate a concrete cargo strategy, says Jacob Nitter Sorensen, Air Greenland CEO.
-But we clearly see much potential for development with an Atlantic airport at Ilulissat - including uplift of unique and fresh Greenlandic seafood to markets in Europe or in the USA. A business where Greenland would be ideally well-positioned.
-The favourable combination of enhanced accessibility and insatiated market demands will define the framework around our future strategy, be it concerning seafood, minerals, tourism, or passenger traffic.
-Our ambition remains to be the prime choice in making Greenland easily accessible in the future, says Mr Sorensen.
Today, Greenland's only Atlantic airport with traffic from Denmark is the outlying Kangerlussuaq Airport in the south, which requires transfer of cargo on smaller aircraft for shipments to and from other cities in Greenland, notably Nuuk.
With the new infrastructure in place, international flights can be operated at a new Nuuk Airport as well as at Ilulissat, a coastal town in western Greenland with significant seafood industries, with both airports to be equipped with a 2,200 m runway.
-Greenland and Air Greenland are facing an exciting future with the new airport infrastructure. However, many major issues have not yet been settled in sufficient details to allow Air Greenland to formulate a concrete cargo strategy, says Jacob Nitter Sorensen, Air Greenland CEO.
-But we clearly see much potential for development with an Atlantic airport at Ilulissat - including uplift of unique and fresh Greenlandic seafood to markets in Europe or in the USA. A business where Greenland would be ideally well-positioned.
-The favourable combination of enhanced accessibility and insatiated market demands will define the framework around our future strategy, be it concerning seafood, minerals, tourism, or passenger traffic.
-Our ambition remains to be the prime choice in making Greenland easily accessible in the future, says Mr Sorensen.