Capacity into China improves, but where is the demand?
While capacity into China has improved since COVID-19-related restrictions lifted in early June, the resulting supply chain disruptions throughout Asia...
Cargo Traffic
Charter broker Air Partner weighs in on charter market, anticipates rate rise
While the air cargo charter market has had to adapt to a very unstable environment in the first half of...
Trans-Atlantic capacity rebounds to pre-pandemic levels
Trans-Atlantic capacity has rebounded to pre-pandemic levels as passenger travel continues to grow, Neel Jones Shah, executive vice president and...
Forwarders count on fixed-capacity agreements with carriers amid war, lockdown
Forwarders continue to benefit from fixed-capacity agreements with carriers amid airfreight operations impacted by Russian sanctions and Shanghai’s recently lifted...
IATA: Cargo traffic decline deepens in April
Industrywide cargo traffic in cargo tonne kilometers (CTKs) decreased 11.2% year over year in April due to the global supply...
Air freight rates begin to drop with May capacity increase
Air cargo market volumes in May dropped 8% year over year as rates declined 10% from April. The air...
AAPA: April cargo traffic continues to decline
April saw the second consecutive month of declining cargo traffic for Asia-Pacific carriers in 2022, with airlines in the Association...
Asia-Pacific under lockdown: Supply chain snarls tangle trade lanes
Spring 2022 has seen the lifting of mask mandates and lockdowns in many parts of the world as vaccination rates...
War in Ukraine, loss of ABC capacity strains ground handlers
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, paired with the loss of capacity from Russian airlines such as AirBridgeCargo (ABC) and its affiliate...
End of cargo-in-cabin ops will further impact strained capacity
With sanctions placed on Russia-based carriers, lack of capacity will continue to be a key driver for air cargo, especially...
Ex-China cargo capacity still fluctuating sharply between gateways
Air cargo capacity and rates out of China continue to fluctuate sharply between airport gateways as a result of COVID-19...
Ground factors slow air cargo’s post-2020 recovery in April
Overall airfreight volumes in April were 5% lower than in the same period in 2019 as air cargo’s recovery stalled...
IATA: Airfreight demand softens in March due to omicron wave, Ukraine war
Industrywide cargo traffic in cargo tonne kilometers (CTKs) decreased 5.2% year over year in March as the Ukraine-Russia war continues...
As snarls mount, economists take a walk on the supply side
Global supply chains are knotting up from China to Denmark, sparking re-examinations of things as macro as globalization itself and...
