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Oct 15, 2020 (newstodate): Avinor has now confirmed its commitment to reopen the issue of a new seafood terminal at Oslo Airport.
   On October 13, 2020, Avinor thus sent out a Request for Information to stakeholders in the seafood related industries with October 30, 2020, as deadline for signing up for participation in the process.
   Avinor has dedicated an area of 20,280 sq m to construction of a seafood terminal offering direct airside access to aircraft parking stands as well as road systems to allow for smooth access and fast transfers between trucks, terminal and aircraft.
   With its ROI, Avinor hopes to gain information from stakeholders on success criteria to be integrated in future development plans as well as factors to be included in tenders for operation and land lease contracts.
   The response from stakeholders will provide the basis for Avinor's eventual decision on whether, and how, to proceed with the plans.
   Already in 2016, Avinor announced plans for construction of a large automated terminal capable of handling up to 250,000 tonnes of seafood shipments, building on cooperation with investors and partners in the seafood industry and providers of seafood air logistics.
   The project was, however, shelved in 2019, and in May 2019 the designated partner to operate the terminal, WFS, abrogated the contract.
   Since then, the industry has been left in a vacuum as to the future layout of the seafood handling infrastructure at Oslo Airport, while in normal times volumes have exceeded the capacity at several of the existing seafood handling providers Roadfeeders, Spirit Air Cargo Handling, Gardermoen Perishables Center, Menzies and DHL.