News / Forwarders and box lines will carry on with their own air networks

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The airfreight market may be soft – but forwarders are likely to retain at least part of their own controlled networks.

Asok Kumar, global head of airfreight for DB Schenker, told delegates at the Air Cargo Handling & Logistics conference last week, in Athens, that while the economics needed constant reviewing, forwarders were still wary of relying entirely on the airlines.

“Having our own controlled capacity was a development that took place because there was a lack of capacity in the market; ...