News / Airfreight faces capacity challenge, as widebody fleet growth falters

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Shippers and forwarders are facing the prospect of tightening airfreight capacity driving up pricing. Growth in demand and available lift have diverged increasingly this year, and supply of large widebody aircraft remains constricted by supply chain issues and other problems in aircraft manufacturing. This has a knock-on effect on the availability of planes for conversion into cargo aircraft, further exacerbating the constraints on capacity.

In its latest update on the market, aircraft appraising and aviation consulting firm IBA noted that aircraft ...