Halifax Airport Doubles Lobster Shipments In Two Years

International demand for Nova Scotia lobster and other local seafood boosting air cargo figures at Halifax Stanfield International Airport.

The airport had a record 32,020 metric tonnes of cargo in 2015.

More important, the dollar value of that cargo was $447 million, up from $317 million two years earlier, says Ian Arthur, the airport authority’s chief commercial officer.

“Live lobsters have gone from $63 million in 2013 to $130 million in 2015,” he said.

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