Widespread blanked sailings stave off major collapse of transpacific rates
Spot rates across all the major east-west deepsea trades continued their downward descent this week, ...
© Khunaspix Dreamstime.
By Alex Lennane
An increasingly desperate air cargo industry, faced with the possible failure of freighter operators, has called on the forwarding industry to help it stem the losses, and leave the industry intact in case of an upturn in volumes.
“Desperate times call for desperate measures,” one freighter operator told The Loadstar. “The whole industry should ground its freighter fleet for a month. It would save us money and we could find out whether forwarders need freighters.”
Several other freighter operators said they would ...
Comment on this article
massimo
September 23, 2012 at 8:20 amit may sound as an indecent proposal, but i rather follow it than slowly vanish. Our industry needs to team up despite the differences and became a solid wall.