ICAO: why a focus on air cargo is crucial

By Benny Mantin Benny Mantin, professor of Logistics and Supply Chain Management and director of the Luxembourg Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management

17/10/2023

ICAO will be speaking at the European Aviation Conference, and will focus on air cargo for good reason, explains Benny Mantin

The recent Covid-19 epidemic shed a shining light on the (literally) vital importance of logistics, and air cargo in particular. Passenger airlines halted their operations, taking with them roughly half of the world’s air cargo capacity (passenger plane belly holds). Cargo freighters and integrated express operators kept going regardless. Without them, the effects of the pandemic would have been much ...