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jorn Ragnebrink is at a bit of a loss to understand why Malmo isn’t more popular with
freighter operators. While Sweden’s most southerly airport has done a good job in pulling in the planes of express parcels operators like DHL and TNT, most operators still truck cargo across the new Oresund fixed link to Copenhagen, says the director of cargo business development for the Swedish airports authority, Swedavia. This is despite the fact that Malmo is a modern airport situated inside Sweden, by far Scandinavia’s largest airfreight market. “It could be because Copenhagen
is very well established as a hub for SAS (the joint Scandinavian national airline) and a lot of the all- cargo carriers originally came to Copenhagen because they they had block space agreements with them. But they don’t have these any more – so perhaps it’s inertia.” It’s puzzling, though, that airlines are prepared to bear the double-
handling costs of received cargo in Malmo and trucking it across to Denmark, at a time when they are complaining about low yields. “It could be that separate people are responsible for buying the trucking and terminal handling, so some carriers don’t have an overall view of their costs,” says Ragnebrink. What the market really needs is
a strong, sustained recovery that will encourage freighter operators to dust off their expansion plans. Malmo was probably well-placed to take advantage of the next phase of market growth but unfortunately the recession has put a stop to that. “We need the impetus of some new carriers into the market,”
is
Ragnebrink’s analysis – not that he’d want to see the relatively small Swedish market over-subscribed. Overall though, cargo business
isn’t bad at Swedavia’s main airports, which also include Stockholm and Gothenburg “Thanks to the strength of the Swedish economy, the first
Ntex goes to Norway S
wedish based Ntex Ab has opened a new company, in
Norway, Ntex As. Ntex AS operates from a depot
at Kveldroveien, Vinterbro. Initially with a staff of five people, they will be managed by Milan Nikolicv and Mirza Sabanovic who, were key members of Euro
Smooth start for Streamline to Norway E
imskip’s new call in Aberdeen on its service from the UK to
west coast Norway and Murmansk is settling down well in the four months it has been in operation, reports local ships’ and liner agent Streamline Shipping. The Icelandic- owned operator
inserted a call
at the Scottish port into the three ship, weekly service which calls in Grimsby, Aberdeen, the Stavanger area and up the north Norway coast and then Murmansk in Russia, before heading back to Velsen in Holland and back to Grimsby. The route is operated by three
hatchless side-loading vessels, the Holmfoss and Polfoss (sister ships of 3,500gt) and the 2,995gt Svartfoss, which also has on onboard 50-tonne capacity crane which comes in useful for handling large pieces at some of the smaller ports. The ships carry palletised goods below deck
and containers and large pieces on deck. Streamline director Alex Roberts
says: “Business is building up well since the calls in Aberdeen started just over four months ago. Cargo is mostly oil-related with some inbound frozen fish, and also outbound frozen fish to Murmansk.” With much of the traffic related to the oil industry, it is relatively immune from Europe’s economic woes. He added: “The service seems
to have been well received by local shippers and forwarders.” It acts as an alternative to Sea-Cargo’s similar service, though this does not offer the Murmansk option, a port that enjoys few liner services from the UK.
Many years ago Streamline
operated its own ships to Norway, so it has a lot of experience in the trade.
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half of the year has been good and exports have gone well. It has softened a bit in the summer and September this year was 8% down on the same month in 2010, but the cumulated year was still 2% up on 2010. It’s slowing a bit, but it’s not like 2009, which was like dropping a piano from 10,000 feet.” The Swedish economy is slowing partly because it is so export-
orientated – around 50% of GDP, says Ragnebrink – and overseas sales are obviously affected by the troubles of the Eurozone and elsewhere. But it looks as if Sweden is in for a soft landing. Being outside the Eurozone has, for the short term at least, served Sweden well. Elsewhere in Sweden, Stockholm
airport has a new weekly Turkish Cargo A310F freighter to Istanbul
Airlines three
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(inbound from Moscow). Other existing freighter services include Korean
times a
week and a weekly Cathay Pacific flight, along with UPS and DHL. Gothenburg, Sweden’s second city and a major industrial base, has Asiana twice a week and Emirates three times. In other developments, Spirit Air has moved to its new terminal
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in Stockholm airport’s Cargo City, ending a split operation. Stockholm airport authority
opened a unified cargo security checkpoint a couple of years ago, which has helped consolidate activity at a single point. There is also a new perishables terminal and border inspection post. Spirit has also expanded its terminal at Gothenburg.
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