Agility bucks the industry trend by vowing to keep its forwarding business flying

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While many forwarders are looking to cut back their exposure to the declining air freight market, Agility is bucking the trend and has pledged to keep 50% of its forwarding business in the sector.

The strategy is supported by figures released last week by Transport Intelligence (Ti), showing that air freight makes up 49.7% of the total forwarding market, which in 2012 grew to €125.85bn.

“We have a 50:50 balance of sea and air ? and we are not growing one over ...