Carriers look to short-term gains over blanking, as Red Sea crisis props up rates
With the Red Sea crisis continuing to artificially prop up container spot rates, carriers have ...
As forwarders on the major routes out of Asia find space ever more difficult to secure, this useful round-up from Air Cargo News demonstrates that quite a few of them have been taking matters into their own hands and chartering aircraft themselves. US digital start-up forwarder Flexport is the latest to enter the charter market, and will fly a B747F from Hong Kong to Los Angeles over the weekend to cater for e-commerce demand and to carry new hi-tech consumer products into the US ahead of the key retail season. The San Francisco-based company added that with little prospect of air freight capacity increasing, expect more charters next year.
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