News / Tight capacity and rates surge could mean you must 'pay to play' in airfreight as strike continues

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Airlines and forwarders will be asking if the potential short-term financial gains from today’s increased market volatility are worth jeopardising customer relations.

Releasing its September rates report two days into the largest strike to hit US east and Gulf coast ports in close to half a century, Xeneta notes that last month was the first this year in which airfreight did not experience a double-digit volume bounce.

And chief airfreight officer at Xeneta Niall van de ...