News / TPM: When the higher cost of air cargo can pay dividends

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Air cargo has become a staple for shippers in a volatile post-Covid market, but does the cost-benefit ratio add up? 

At last week’s TPM25, by S&P Global conference in Long Beach, California, Prathibha Hampapur, global leader-Inbound logistics for Lululemon, noted that shippers had “shifted their approach in recognising and considering airfreight as a part of disruption strategy”.  

“This didn’t really exist two years ago. Ocean freight is still the major mode of transport, but now I’m seeing a shift in shippers ...