Claws for celebration: Lobsters help Halifax Stanf

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Nova Scotia seafood represented a “significant portion” of the record 36,938 tonnes of cargo processed at Canada’s Halifax Stanfield airport in 2018.

The increase of 8.5% over 2017 marks the fifth consecutive year of cargo volume growth for the airport and comes as the hub begins work on a new logistics park.

Bert van der Stege, chief commercial officer at Halifax International Airport Authority (HIAA), said: “Similar to passenger travel, we continue to see the cargo side of our operations expand, resulting in multiple daily dedicated cargo flights filled with Nova Scotia exports now flying out of Halifax Stanfield.

Construction work on the air cargo logistics park will begin this year begin and the facility is slated to open in late 2020 or early 2021.

At a total investment of C$36m, Halifax Stanfield was able to move the project forward with funding support from the federal and provincial governments at C$18m and C$5m respectively, in addition to its own investment of C$13m.

“Buoyed by the ratification of the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), demand for Nova Scotia exports continues to grow in Europe. Carriers such as Cargojet, with its weekly flight from Halifax Stanfield to Cologne Bonn Airport in Germany, moves seafood exports – as well as specialized electronics and machinery – to points in Europe and beyond.”

Overall, air cargo exports contribute an estimated $447.1m to the provincial economy.

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