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Jul 25, 2023 (newstodate): Still struggling to recover from the corona backlash, cargo volumes handled at Latvia's Riga Airport continue to rebound month by month in 2023.
   After a strong decline in the first two months of this year, volumes have increased steadily month by month, and June 2023 showed an increase in volumes by 11 percent, y-o-y, to 1,631 tonnes, which was by a small margin the best monthly tonnage handled so far this year.
   However, summing up January-June '23, total volumes landed at 9,370 tonnes - still 15 percent below last year's H1 figures.
   Contributing to a sustained growth is the start of operations in May 2023 by the new Ukrainian cargo airline Supernova on the route between Riga and Rzeszow, in Poland, delivering international parcels of Nova Post customers from Riga International Airport to Rzeszow in Poland.    
   Flight operations are provided by the Latvian carrier RAF-AVIA with one ATR72 converted cargo aircraft, and plans are so far for two weekly rotations on the route.