End of de minimis will bring turbulence for airfreight shippers and forwarders
Shippers and forwarders with long-term commitments for transpacific aircraft capacity could find themselves in a ...
Airfreight rates have soared this month, as the market continues to be propped up by e-commerce and Red Sea disruptions.
WorldACD reported today that the average global air freight rates rose week on week by more than 2% between 1-7 April, and now sit at $2.54 per kg – 41% above April 2019 pre-Covid levels.
But the back-to-back airfreight rate rises have been dubbed “surprising” by Niall van der Wouw, head of airfreight at analytics platform Xeneta.
He told the new Loadstar Podcast: ...
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