News / Air freight must change: it's not ready to meet the growing demands of e-commerce

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The air freight industry needs to change dramatically as it undergoes a “paradigm shift” from the demands of e-commerce. 

The e-commerce companies are revolutionising the industry: Amazon Air, which has some 40 aircraft and ambitions to increase that to 100, according to some reports, is now the tenth-largest freighter carrier – a position it reached in less than three years.

Alibaba, meanwhile, this week invested $693.44m in its fourth express courier, STO Express. 

“Mail parcel traffic has increased four-fold since 2006,” said Marco Bloemen, managing director of Seabury Consulting.

“Express ...