Tramon to bring on more capacity next month

KEVIN MAYHEW THE DEVASTATION in Indonesia due to the Boxing Day earthquake and consequent tsunami will have an impact on the demand for dangerous goods, says the chief executive officer of Tramon Air, Daniel Coetzer. "It will be detrimental to most operators involved in the transport of such products and could ultimately take most of the operators out of the market for the next 12 months.” He explained that Indonesia had been a destination for hazardous goods – mainly military - and this would now fall away in the short term. Many operators have also shifted capacity to provide logistics for the humanitarian effort being undertaken by the world community in the region – and this had seen capacity shifted from hazardous goods transport. “We have our normal local dangerous goods clients for whom we provide a service and we believe that the local market will pick up again. In fact we will be adding a further Boeing 727/200 to our fleet by the end of February this year,” he explained. He added that the local demand for dangerous goods transportation was going through its traditional decline at the beginning of the year but he expected it to stabilise.