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A “very strong Q4” for air cargo will likely turn into a record peak season, according to IATA economist Ghislaine Lang, but the growth will be hard to sustain next year.
In yesterday’s IATA global cargo media day, Ms Lang noted that “with booming ecommerce and repeated disruptions in maritime shipping, the tide started to turn somewhere around mid-2023, and demand started to grow again,” after industry-wide air cargo demand contracted in post-Covid 2022.
And despite high expectations that this year’s ...
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