News / Freighters will dominate air cargo as cross-border e-commerce grows

Even post-pandemic surging demand for cross-border e-commerce will see freighters dominating air cargo, according to Cainiao.

The Alibaba logistics unit launched its latest freighter route this week: a direct charter flight between Singapore and China’s Hainan Island five times a week.

Home to increasingly popular domestic/tourist destinations of Sanya and Haikou, Hainan is seeing a ’luxury brand shopping boom’ since the government tripled the annual limit for duty-free purchases last July to $15,000.

Sales are up 244% year on year, with February alone ...