News / Flower shippers demand some loyalty as airlines shift capacity around

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Carriers prioritising profit when deploying freighter capacity have caused “headaches” for Kenyan flower shippers forced to dump a significant portion of their produce.

At last week’s World Cargo Summit in Bruges, the MD of Florius International, Willum Van den Hoogen, shocked delegates by revealing that some 20% of his flower shipments from Kenya had been “dumped on the compost heap” in November, “because there simply was no cargo capacity out of Kenya into the Netherlands.” 

Eline van den Berg, supply chain specialist ...