Airfreight rates rising gently as ecommerce giants eye new tradelanes
Global airfreight rates and volumes are rising gently – but confusion over US ecommerce rules ...
By Joe Ortiz
Containerised imports into the US are expected to break through the 2m teu mark this month, for the first time since last October.
But according to the monthly Port Tracker, published by the National Retail Federation (NRF) in collaboration with maritime consultancy Hackett Associates, monthly volumes should slip back below that threshold for the remainder of the year.
But at least the rate of year-on-year decline is expected to shrink, it says.
Based on traffic projections at major US container gateways, Port Tracker ...
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