Aviation Logistics: Part 2 – Air cargo, the 'vital contributor', comes under pressure

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The second in a series of extracts from Aviation Logistics, a new book by Michael Sales and Stan Wraight in conjunction with TIACA

Aviation is a vital component of the global economy involving some sixty million jobs and generating over $2.2 trillion of economic activity. The need to travel, whether for business or vacation, has expanded the capacity and scale of aircraft size.

At the same time, aircraft manufacturers are working continuously to create bigger, better, quieter and more fuel-efficient products ...