News / Purchasing manager 'failures' could lead to airfreight boom

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Repeated failure by purchasing managers to understand the post-pandemic market looks set to ignite bumper demand for Q4 airfreight capacity.

Shipping advisor Dr Walter Kemmsies decries popular reports that western economies, especially the US, were facing recession, and noted the latest US jobs report, indicating some 1.8 vacancies per unemployed person seeking a job.

“This isn’t usually a sign of pending recession; also, the world has undergone a series of changes and I am not entirely sure we understand the inflation,” Dr ...