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Apr 18, 2024 (newstodate): The opening of new international airports in Greenland will open up new prospects for the country's seafood exports.
   First to come is Nuuk Airport opening for traffic on November 28, 2024, to be followed by the opening of new transatlantic airports at Ilulissat in 2025 and at Qaqortoq by spring 2026.
   Today, Air Greenland's sole Airbus A330-800neo is the only wide-body aircraft providing daily rotations between Greenland and Denmark, but hopes are to see new operators entering the market, bringing in more cargo capacity and new destinations.
   However, to boost Greenland's seafood exports and turn shipments from sea to air transportation and from frozen to fresh products requires more than just an increase in international air connectivity from the new airports.
   Today, export shipments are first transported from the outlying domestic sites in the belly holds of Air Greenland's Dash-8 commuter aircraft into the existing Transatlantic hub at Kangerlussuaq Airport for uplift by Air Greenland's Airbus flights to Copenhagen.
   In concrete terms, cargo allotment on the Dash-8 aircraft is limited to around one tonne depending on actual volumes of passenger luggage, while the Airbus A330-800neo will lift some 15-20 tonnes of cargo.
   In the end, a steady flow of fresh seafood shipments from production sites to the global marketplace will thus require dedicated domestic air cargo services into the coming new Transatlantic airports - and this is not currently on the horizon.