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AIR FREIGHT UPDATES Air France, KLM Merge JVs With China Southern, Xiamen sourc: news.airwise.com Air France, KLM, China Southern and Xiamen Airlines announced that they will merge their two existing agreements to create a single joint venture.  Read more here. Qatar […]

AIR FREIGHT UPDATES Hong Kong Airport on course for another record year for cargo source: aircargonew.net Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) is set for another record year after handling 2.5m tonnes of cargo and airmail in the first six months […]

OCEAN FREIGHT UPDATES Market insight: Pick-a-merger time for Hapag Lloyd as suitors line up source: theloadstar.co.uk Hapag-Lloyd shareholder Michael Klaus Kuehne may have rejected the idea of a merger with CMA CGM – but is it a good idea, nonetheless? […]

AIR FREIGHT UPDATES Vietnam’s Bamboo Airways Gets Government Go-ahead source: news.airwise.com The Vietnamese government has approved the establishment of Bamboo Airways after the airline completed all necessary legal procedures. Read more here.  FIS publishes first airfreight futures forward curve source: aircargonews.net […]

AIR FREIGHT UPDATES ANA Cancels Additional 176 Flights, More To Come source: news.airwise.com All Nippon Airways has cancelled 176 additional domestic flights as it continues inspections of Rolls-Royce engines powering some of its Boeing 787 Dreamliner fleet. ANA, which operates […]

AIR FREIGHT UPDATES Few clear signs of tariff-related freight surge source: lloydloadinglist.com Air freight volumes and rates ex-Asia were given little support ahead of new US import tariffs, which will be enforced by the Trump administration on Chinese exports to […]

AIR FREIGHT UPDATES Few clear signs of tariff-related freight surge source: lloydsloadinglist.com Air freight volumes and rates ex-Asia were given little support ahead of new US import tariffs, which will be enforced by the Trump administration on Chinese exports to […]

AIR FREIGHT UPDATES Questions raised as air cargo growth slips in May source: aircargonews.net With air cargo demand growth slowing again in May, analyst WorldACD has tried to pinpoint whether this is a one-off dip, or signs of growing weakness. […]

AIR FREIGHT UPDATES Air freight volume and rate growth slows source: lloydloadinglist.com Average worldwide air cargo yields dropped to US$1.88 in May, 3% below their level in April 2018, but still 14% higher than in May 2017, new figures from […]

AIR FREIGHT UPDATES Latest air freight data reveals growth in American markets – ‘but at a price’ source:theloadstar.co.uk WorldACD has published another set of data, asking whether the pessimism over the air cargo market, which has seen growth slow, is […]