New seafood ‘cooling hotel’ for Oslo Airport
AN advanced new export terminal for chilled seafood is to be built at Oslo’s Gardermoen Airport.
The centre, which should be completed by the middle of next year, will handle fish of all types, but salmon is almost certain to be the main species.
The project received the go-ahead after the airport owner, Avinor, signed a deal with the Oslo Seafood & Cargo Centre (OSCC).
The signatories said the 4,200 square metre centre will use less ice and deliver safer and fresher seafood.
Avinor’s air freight manager Martin Langaas said: “The quality of Norwegian raw materials is ensured while at the same time we can reduce the climate footprint.”
Langaas said the “cooling hotel” will make it possible to reduce the volume of ice in seafood packaging, by ensuring the fish is already cold when it is moved out to the aircraft.