2015 was a weak year in air freight – but 2016 will be all about delivering

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Remember the heady last days of 2014, and the air freight boom in the first two months of 2015? As the unions and truck drivers at the US west coast ports fought to improve their conditions, causing significant congestion, shippers were forced to fly their goods. Ships swung uselessly on their anchors.

So much so, that according to Seabury, shippers booked the equivalent of an extra 120 777Fs a week during that time – 138,000 incremental tonnes of air freight that ...