News / Demystifying the potential impact on air cargo from global vaccine distribution

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Worried about the potential disruption to air freight capacity by vaccines?

Well, don’t be.

New research by Cargo Facts Consulting (CFC) shows the “global impact on air freight will be relatively modest”.

Additional cargo tonnage over two years will be about 50,000, “spread unevenly”, it says, while domestic cargo levels will be about 70,000 tons, mainly in the US, EU and India, but with some movement in China, Brazil and Japan.

Any impact so far has been marginal, with just 2% of globally ordered ...