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Forwarders and airlines fear new bottlenecks at airports as cargo growth outpaces infrastructure investment.
Brandon Fried, executive director of the Air Forwarders’ Association, told The Loadstar on the sidelines of IATA’s CNS conference in Miami last week: “I think you’re going to see a bullwhip effect, because there’s ...
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Zachary Oakley
May 21, 2025 at 4:15 pmAirlines, forwarders, and shippers need to operate out of airports where cargo is the priority. RFD bends over backwards to build solutions for our partners. If organizations think strategically, they can alleviate concerns permanently.
Andre Morrall
May 22, 2025 at 10:59 amIn a roundabout way, Mr fried is describing “Deadweight Loss”
Let me explain: Supply of Air Cargo Infrastructure and services.
Let’s list what is on offer at a hub airport: Slot constraints, airspace congestion, long taxi times and ground holding, addition of high density passenger flight movements, building lease escalation where airside warehousing is often not owned by the airport authority, layering another financial cost, limited scope to increase airside warehousing capacity, limited GHA tenant service provision, congested road access network. These factors on the Hub Airport Supply Side combine to deliver an efficient market equilibrium. This is called Deadweight Loss and it has a societal effect on the consumer. If you are a shipper, freight forwarder or an air cargo airline and you are exposed to Deadweight Loss, you run the risk of loss of competitiveness and poor customer service provision. So if you have no strategy to reduce your exposure to the presence of Deadweight Loss, then maybe you should take time to consider re-thinking your approach. Bespoke air cargo airports like Chicago Rockford RFD supply their collective cargo airport operational and airside air cargo infrastructure services equation without expose to Deadweight Loss . It supplies such collective infrastructure so as to deliver a highly efficient market equilibrium. That’s why UPS, AMAZON and Maersk and others operate at RFD. And what do all these companies have in common? Human Capital Decision Making Excellence, when it comes to economics……..