Lack of freighters means a capacity crunch and limited air cargo growth
While air cargo demand factors will be hard to predict in “a year of uncertainty”, ...
Shippers are happy to pay more for capacity and pricing assurance, and would like to be “in the loop” with supply chain decision-making, delegates heard at this week’s World Cargo Summit in Bruges.
Jody Paulus, CEO of dangerous goods shipper Optitune, explained that as a seller, he must set prices and quantities for his clients around a year in advance of production – which creates a headache when factoring-in supply chain costs.
He told delegates” “What is very important for me ...
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