ScandinaviaReport Toll creates Nordic outfit


Australia’s Toll Global For- warding has set up a Nordics division. Headquartered in Copenhagen, it also has offices inAarhus andHelsinki, plans to open an office in Norway in the next few months and has also confirmed that it is tomove into the Baltic states. Toll Global Forwarding’s


existing operation in Sweden is to be intergated into the new Nordics network. The division is expected to


initially concentrate on air and ocean forwarding, plus project logistics. Geographically, it is going to target shipping to and from Asia, the Americas and the Middle East. With 50 staff in the division, the final head-


Hansen: “we are entering the market aggressively”


count is forecast to reach 150- 175 or so people, excluding warehouse personnel and staff, Toll noted. At the head of the new oper-


ation is CEO Ole Moller Hansen. “Covering the whole Nordic/Baltic region will make the group more attractive to larger customers, particularly those with logistics needs in more than one country,” he said. “We are entering the market


aggressively, with strong and innovative products in both the sea and air freight segments, supported by a state-of-the-art IT solution. We expect to be in


the top seven or eight multimodal forwarders here within two years,” Hansen added.


Danish gateway revels in a record year


Denmark’s Billund Interna- tional airport says it is having a fine year. The spe- cialist freight gateway is expecting to handle more than 60,000 tonnes of cargo by the end of 2010, breaking the airport’s old record set in 2007. Throughput so far this


year is up by a very impres- sive 36 percent compared to 2009. Between January and October, the airport processed 51,177 tonnes, notes Jan Ditlevsen,manager Cargo Center Billund. Some of this expansion is, admittedly,


due to the low base of comparison set last year, but much of it is also due to new cargo volumes – for example, loads pro- vided by the daily B757 freighter service to Leipzig that integrator DHL launched in April. Thewestern Denmark airport sawnearly


6,000 tonnes of freight in October alone, a 34 percent year-on-year increase and if,


throughput continues to increase, there may be need for further handling capacity, Ditlevsen pointed out. Plans exist for a 33 percent increase in


processing capacity, with a major expan- sion of the 12,000m2


of warehouse space


currently available at Billund, aswell as the associated handling equipment needed. However, these remain only plans on a


drawing board at the moment, he added, contingent upon the growth in freight traffic at Billund continuing into next year.


Healthy freight development in Sweden


“Cargo development in Sweden is still looking very good,” enthuses Björn Ragnebrink, director business development intercontinental routes and air cargo at Swedish airport oper- ator Swedavia. “Everyone seems


to be


happy,” he declared. “Figures for all of themajor airports that we own – Stockholm-Arlanda, Gothenburg and Malmö – show a healthy growth.” This expansion is being


fuelled by an increasing level of Swedish exports, Ragnebrink said. Furthermore, because the country’s economy was one of the less affected amongst those of the EUby the economic crisis, imports have also been held up by Swedish consumer spending. Ragnebrink is keen to attractmore freighters


Ragnebrink – keen to attract more freighters


to capitalise on the volumes available. However, one all- cargo project that has not gone as planned was the Korean Air Cargo start-up freight opera- tion scheduled to take off at Lulea International airport in the north of the country. Korean was about to launch


a regular service, every Tuesday, but it closed the operation before the first scheduled flight. This was despite adequate


tonnages having been secured fromlocal sources – particularly Norwegian seafood – and the decision was received with dis- appointment by both shippers


and forwarding agents, he said. “The business is still there, sowe areworking


to find a new airline that could take over Korean’s role,” Ragnebrink added.


BRIEFS • BRIEFS • BRIEFS • BRIEFS


COPENHAGEN AIRPORT welcomed three new services at the start of November – AeroSvit with daily flights from Kiev, easyJet to Basel and Climber Sterling, which is oper- ating non-stop services to Tel Aviv.


NORWEGIAN AIR SHUTTLE is to lease two B787 ‘Dreamliner’ aircraft for its long-range operations. Norwegian signed a letter of intent with International Lease Finance Corp


(ILFC) earlier this month to lease the B787s for a 12-year period, with delivery expected fromautumn 2012.


OSLO AIRPORT handled 6,172 tonnes of freight in October, down by 1.6 percent on the same month of 2009. However, the amount of freight traffic being carried over international routes was up by 4.1 percent year-on-year to 3,734 tonnes.


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