Oct 13, 2016: Emirates SkyCargo has expanded its presence in Scandinavia with the launch of a new weekly freighter service from Oslo to Dubai. The service is operated by an Emirates Skycargo Boeing 777 Freighter aircraft which has the capacity to carry just over 100 tonnes of cargo. Large and outsized shipments can also be easily uplifted through the aircraft’s wide main deck cargo doors. The cargo capacity offered through the weekly freighter is in addition to the 175 tonnes of belly hold capacity offered on the five-weekly Boeing 777-300ER passenger flights from Oslo. The new weekly freighter service from Oslo will facilitate increasing exports of seafood, in particular salmon, from Norway. The last six years have witnessed a doubling of Norwegian seafood exports because of increased demand from global customers for Norwegian salmon, trout, cod and crab. Emirates SkyCargo remains an important facilitator of trade between Scandinavia and the rest of the world offering nearly 600 tonnes of weekly cargo capacity through passenger flights to Copenhagen, Oslo and Stockholm and freighter services to Copenhagen and Oslo. EK 9370 arrives at Oslo every Tuesday at 1005hrs and will depart from Oslo at 1200hrs reaching Dubai at 1840hrs on the same day. The Norwegian capital is the latest to join Emirates SkyCargo’s network of over 50 freighter destinations across the world. Emirates SkyCargo operates a fleet of 15 dedicated freighters- 13 Boeing 777-Fs and two B747-400ERFs out of its Emirates SkyCentral freighter hub at Dubai World Central.