News / Forwarders eyeing major US airports with dread as peak season looms

© Patrick Cooper

As the peak season approaches, apprehension is on the rise.

Securing enough lift may be the biggest concern for forwarders, but many fear this is only part of the battle; they are looking nervously at big airports which buckled under the volume of cargo a year ago.

Major gateways like Frankfurt or New York JFK suffered lengthy delays in the 2017 peak season: at Germany’s premier airport, trucks waited up to 20 hours for a slot to collect freight, one forwarder recalled.

“We ...