Factbox: Industry impact on day 5 of volcano disruption

Airline industry group IATA called for steps to reopen European airspace shut down by a volcanic ash cloud as the disruption entered a fifth day.

Below are some of the effects on industries ranging from fish through car rental to electronics.

FISH/GROCERIES/RESTAURANTS

The world's largest fish farmer, Norway's Marine Harvest, said it would reduce salmon harvest volumes from Monday and that salmon exports to Asia and North America had been hit. Iceland's trade council said some fresh fish supplies were being fed into frozen fish supplies but most of Iceland's fish exports are sea-based and so unaffected.

Peter Grundhoefer, a top fruit and vegetables wholesaler in Frankfurt, said: "This affects all of us in the fruits business. We will lack beans and chillies from Egypt and fresh herbs from Israel ... (and) exotic fruits like mango, kumquats and physalis once stocks have been used up in the next one or two days."

Thomas Kosmidis, a manager at Frankfurt fish and delicacy restaurant supplier Venos, said: "We are running short of tuna from the Indian Ocean, Victoria perch from Africa, basil from Cyprus and other fresh herbs from Israel, lobster from Canada and green asparagus from California."

Germany's Deutsche See, which says it is the country's biggest seller of fish and seafood, said there was no bottleneck in fish supplies.

"Fish comes to Bremerhaven mostly by ship and truck and is then transported to our 23 Deutsche See sites within Germany by truck. Only small amounts of mostly exotic fish and seafood is imported by plane."

Barbara Hennings, who works at Frankfurt sushi restaurant Iroha, said exotic vegetables were a bigger problem than fish.

"So far we're not experiencing any supply bottlenecks and we're not having to take dishes off the menu." She said tuna supplies came frozen once a month from Spain so there was no impact there. "But we import several vegetables from Japan, such as shiitake mushrooms, and we also get our yellowfish from Japan. Here we have some problems...but the majority of our fish we get from within Europe via road."

Kenya's horticulture industry is losing $3 million a day and it will take several weeks to recover even if flights resume now, its association of exporters said.

Colruyt, the Belgian discount supermarket chain, said sales of cut flowers such as roses from Kenya and fresh fish from Iceland came to a standstill on Saturday.

LOGISTICS

Dutch mail group TNT said it had switched to road transport in Europe and was incurring higher costs.

"TNT's air network is mainly a European network. Within Europe we have a very strong road network that covers 39 countries, which means for most of the freight we have been able to move it by truck," said spokesman Cyrille Gibot.

Anita Gupta, Asia Pacific spokeswoman for rival DHL in Singapore, said the group had "increased its trucking capacity to minimize delays for shipments within Europe. A three- to five-day delay is expected for shipments moving between Europe and the rest of the world."

TELECONFERENCING

Cisco Systems Inc said companies were turning to videoconferencing to connect executives stranded by the flight ban in parts of Europe.

"The only evidence is anecdotal, but you will not get a demo room in any of the Cisco facilities," said Fredrik Halvorsen, former CEO of Tandberg and head of the group's TelePresence Technology Group. "We have seen a huge spike in usage."

HOTELS/TOURISM/CAR RENTAL

"Many hotels have been booked out since Friday, said Petra Winter, a spokeswoman for the tourism office in Frankfurt, Germany. Of 140 hotels with a total of over 34,000 beds in Frankfurt, only 20 still have vacancies.

Car rental companies have been hit by a surge in demand as travellers try to find substitutes for flights.

"We are buying new cars for this" by taking on sooner than planned cars that the company has already agreed to buy, a spokeswoman for Europcar in Hamburg said.

Rival Sixt is keeping cars in its fleet for more than the usual six months and recovering vehicles that have already been moved to used-car dealerships.

ELECTRONICS

Japans's Fujitsu Ltd said its notebook PC shipments to Europe have been halted temporarily due to disruptions in European air traffic. It said there was enough inventory in the region to ensure no earnings impact at the moment. Sony Corp, Sharp Corp, Hitachi Ltd and Panasonic Corp said they were experiencing no impact.

In Seoul, Kim Seong-bong, market analyst at Samsung Securities, said: "If the stoppage of flight services in Europe ...lasts more than a couple of weeks, it will be negative to technology exporters."

PHARMACEUTICALS

Officials said thanks to buffer stocks meant there should not be any immediate drug supply problems.

"We're comfortable that there is no threat to the supply of medicines to patients at this point in time," said Sarah Lindgreen, a spokeswoman for Anglo-Swedish group AstraZeneca.

AIRLINES/AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL

Giovanni Bisignani, head of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) airline industry body, estimated airline revenue losses were now reaching $250 million a day, up from an estimate of $200 million on Friday.

IATA said the economic impact on airlines would be greater than after the 2001 September 11 attacks.

The global Civil Air Navigation Services Organization (CANSO) said the air traffic control sector was losing up to 25 million euros ($35 million) a day due to the closure of European airspace and warned of a significant impact on future investment decisions.

Some airlines in Europe are not going to be in business in the next week or two due to the volcanic ash cloud that has affected European air travel, the Association of European Airlines said.

British airlines and travel companies are losing tens of millions of pounds a day from Europe's airspace paralysis, increasing the pressure on officials to give the all-clear for planes to fly again.

(Compiled by Andrew Callus; Reporting by Reuters bureaus)