Air cargo market 'unpredictable' as nervous airlines review strategy

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It’s a very peculiar time for air cargo: the ‘peak’ season should be seeing the market tighten and, in a couple of months when collated data is released, we may find there was some measure of volume and/or rate rise.  

However, new and more up-to-date data on the market is showing confusion.

Rates and volumes are low – although the latest news on September, from WorldACD, is that the cargo load factor dropped 4 percentage points year on year, but increased by 2 percentage points ...