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Sagging air cargo market shows turnaround potential
The airfreight sector remains chaotic, but a better-than-expected August is spurring optimism for solid results during the busy shipping season.
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Air cargo market fades 7% in May, faces summer of uncertainty
The air cargo market continues to lose altitude in the face of an overall economic slowdown and supply chain dislocations. Whether swiftly changing conditions enable…
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Why is air cargo suddenly affordable relative to ocean shipping?
Air transport is usually the mode of last resort because it is expensive. The pandemic has turned that thinking upside down.
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Freightos takes on TAC with new airfreight index
Freightos has set up an index to track a basket of prices for airfreight, just like it did with its ocean shipping index.
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There is never a bad load, just a bad rate
There has never been more attention paid to freight transportation than what we are experiencing now. And like the Wall Street Bets crowd on Reddit,…
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Stranger things: Air cargo becomes value play over ocean freight
The Upside Down is a parallel universe inhabited by the Demogorgon in the Netflix series “Stranger Things.” In the real world, shippers that don’t want…
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Transport buyers dig deeper into wallets for air cargo
Airfreight markets are topsy-turvy in the COVID era, but importers and exporters can count on one thing: paying two to three times normal rates. CFOs…
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For airlines in 2020, cargo no substitute for people
Uncertain vaccine rollouts and mutant COVID-19 strains are messing up airline industry hopes for a second-half recovery this year. At best, traffic will be half…
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Supply-demand imbalance continues to vex air cargo shippers
If you can’t rent an entire cargo plane for yourself, you might have trouble finding space on an aircraft to make an international shipment.
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Air cargo market levels off in November; passenger sector sinks
The airfreight sector is nursing itself back to health and should be discharged from intensive care by April. Find out why.
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