Seafood the dish of the day as Canadian perishables exports drive airfreight growth

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Canadian lobsters have pulled DHL’s dedicated freighter, linking the US with Asia and Europe, slightly off course.

The global forwarding giant expanded its bespoke lift early this month with a second round-the-world freighter, a B747-400F, routed from Shanghai to Cincinnati, back across the Pacific to Incheon, on to Wuxi and Frankfurt, before returning to Shanghai.

According to DHL Global Forwarding (DGF) management, the additional capacity was deployed to meet rising demand across a variety of sectors, mostly out of Asia.

But lobster exports from the Canadian ...