News / New emissions rules may have little impact on the global air cargo fleet 

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Incoming ICAO emissions standards will have little impact on the freighter market, considering they will not affect the older generation aircraft that constitute the bulk of the global air cargo fleet.

ICAO’s a new rules apply to new aircraft in production as of this year, and those that don’t meet the standard can no longer be manufactured unless their designs are modified.

Most of the freighter fleet has either older technology or are converted and not ...