Qatar Airways Cargo will next month operate its first scheduled freighter service from Helsinki, Finland.
This once weekly service will begin on 2 September on a Doha-Budapest-Helsinki-Doha route, said Qatar Airways Cargo.
The new service will utilise a Boeing 777 freighter to provide 100 tonnes of export cargo capacity out of Helsinki each week.
Qatar said the new service complements the airline’s existing seven weekly widebody passenger services on the Doha-Helsinki-Doha route, which offer over 70 tonnes of belly capacity weekly, each way.
These passenger flights were reinstated in July after previous operations ended in December 2022.
Helsinki is a strategic gateway for high-value and specialised cargo, connecting Finnish and Nordic businesses to global supply chains.
Key export commodities from Finland include high-tech products, electronics, industrial machinery and spare parts, pharmaceuticals, healthcare products, perishables and e-commerce shipments.
Import flows are driven by electronics, consumer goods, automotive components, industrial equipment and e-commerce, demonstrating Helsinki’s role as both a manufacturing and distribution hub.
Qatar Airways Cargo’s TechLift, Pharma, Fresh, and Courier services, among other services, are designed to meet the unique transport and specialised handling requirements of these commodities.
In coordination with its road feeder service (RFS) partners, Qatar Airways Cargo also provides scheduled and ad hoc trucking solutions to and from Helsinki across Scandinavia and the Baltic region.
In July, Qatar Airways Cargo launched seasonal Boeing 777 freighter services on the Doha–London Heathrow–Paris–Doha and Doha–London Heathrow–Milan–Doha routes, while extra capacity is also now being provided for cargo customers on services to Dallas, Brussels and Tokyo, together with the carrier offering significant additional cargo space on links to Dhaka in Bangladesh and Entebbe in Uganda.
