News / Challenges persist, but operators see new freighter finance opportunities

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Since Covid, investors have begun to notice freight – but the cost of financing has risen.

Last month, WFW Global Aviation in the UK advised on the acquisition financing of a 777F for Atlas Air. The company’s global aviation co-head and partner Jim Bell noted that Covid had offered an uptick in the performance of freight and logistics companies.

“The passenger airlines that tended to do reasonably well during Covid were either conveniently placed geographically, had a tendency for shorter-haul, or had ...