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There will be a marked shift towards narrowbody belly capacity in the airfreight market, delegates heard at the packed Caspian Air Cargo Summit in Baku this week. While some hand-wringing over the future of freighters continued, it was competition and changes in the passenger market that drove the agenda.

“It is the 737-800 that is dictating how we do the cargo business in Asia now,” said Mohd Yunus Idris, managing director of Malaysia Airlines Cargo (MASKargo). “Narrowbodies will continue to dominate ...