News / Alert to shippers as airfreight capacity becomes scarce and rates increase

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As air cargo’s peak season approaches, shippers are faced with limited capacity, allowing forwarders to up their sell rates on major trades. 

The Loadstar previously reported how airlines were bracing for a busy Q3, as the steady drum of ecommerce traffic beats alongside the extra capacity taken up by modal switch to avoid the Red Sea and the usual pre-holiday volumes.  

And market analytics platform Xeneta noted that as the north-east Asia-to-Europe trade “heats up”, freight forwarder air cargo sell rates ...