News / Air freight demand hopes high, as new year gets off to a flying start

Jaromír Chalabala

Air freight demand has continued buoyant into 2017, after a healthy final quarter last year.

While rates appeared to fall back in December after a strong November, January has bucked normal trends with a reasonably good start.

Much of the boost was down to China’s growing middle-class, which helped balance European imports and buoyed rates. Better still, firms are confident that the strong start will continue past Chinese New Year.

Both Volga-Dnepr Group’s head of sales and marketing, Robert van de Weg, and ...