News / "Tough" start to the year as air freight rates at their lowest since September

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Things can only get better. We hope. Because January marked a further downturn in the fortunes of the air cargo industry, with traffic suffering significant year-on-year declines, while air freight rates tumbled dramatically on previous months.

According to Drewry’s east-west air freight price index (below), a ...