News / No love letter for airlines as shippers eye sending flowers by sea

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Valentine’s Day is traditionally when airlines boast their flower-carrying credentials ? but the growers are increasingly eyeing different modes.

The Loadstar has previously reported how perishables shippers were increasingly looking to sea freight as air freight capacity constraints have worsened.  

According to Jeroen van der Hulst, founder of Flowerwatch, sea freight has “been on the agenda for the last 20 years”, with the momentum there, “price-wise”., delegates at the World Cargo Summit in Bruges heard. 

“Air freight is scarce and demand for ...