However you read it, air cargo growth is flat-lining – but the writing was on the wall

3 December 2015

There has been some disappointment over miserable IATA figures released today – but the writing has been on the wall for some time.

Volumes may have grown, space got a little tighter in the past couple of months. But IATA’s figures show air freight growth is ...

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