IATA promotes cargo - but is too late to reverse modal shift?

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The days of cargo being sent to the back of the queue, in IATA terms, are long gone.  As Tony Tyler, IATA director general and chief executive, said on the first day of the World Cargo Symposium in Doha: “I’m a bull on cargo. Air cargo is a huge, growing business – although admittedly not this year.”

Talk of modal shift punctuated the first morning, with IATA economist Brian Pearce showing a graph indicating the increase in world trade – and ...