News / Airports must get creative as surging ecommerce threatens to engulf capacity

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Airport infrastructure and aircraft capacity are not expanding fast enough to keep up with demand, largely being driven by ecommerce, forcing the industry to get creative.  

On the sidelines of last week’s TIACA ACF in Miami, director of marketing & air service development at Miami International Airport (MIA) Emir Pineda told The Loadstar that dealing with ecommerce shipments posed different challenges to general cargo.  

They include increased air waybills per pallet, longer clearing processes and more trucks required for feeder ...