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By Alex Lennane
Whatever you might think about modal shift away from air freight, the high-value-to-volume ratio means that cocaine shippers continue to prefer air transport – in Germany, anyway. This fascinating article from Bloomberg shows what the economic effect of Frankfurt’s night flight ban has been and how it has led to a 50% decline in cocaine seizures (although Munich is up). “The ban is nonsense,” says a professor.
