News / Air cargo shippers: 'think about transport before you manufacture'

Shippers will need to consider the lack of large aircraft during their manufacturing processes, warned one charter broker today.

The loss from the market of Volga-Dnepr and Antonov’s AN-124s, as well as the world’s largest commercial aircraft, the AN-225, will create “a huge hole”, said Dan Morgan-Evans, global director cargo for Air Charter Service.

“Shippers will need to think about this before producing large loads,” he said. “They knew the Antonovs, so worked with those specifications. Now they will have to think ...