News / PPE cargo surge gives a massive boost to air cargo brokers' bottom line

25/08/2021

Global grounding of passenger fleets led to a $1.2bn surge in Air Charter Service (ACS) sales for 2020-21, although it knows such a surge is unlikely to be repeated.

Pointing to the chaos in air travel from the pandemic, the charter broker said “urgent demand for medical supply transport” had provided one of its biggest markets with the bulk of the sales’ growth.

CEO Justin Bowman said: “Due to our businesses in China, we had been dealing with the Covid-19 outbreak since ...