News / Air freight optimism for North America's cherry trade pipped by 'other factors'

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After two successive years of sub-standard crops, this year’s cherry harvest in the US provided more fruit for export – but “other factors” continued to weigh on airfreight volumes.

Airlines had been anticipating the cherry season, traditionally one of the boosters of airfreight volumes from the North American west coast to markets in Asia and Europe. In 2021, a heatwave decimated the crop in the Pacific north-west, and a cold and wet spring the following year produced the smallest harvest in ...