Shipping Disruption and E-Commerce Demand Driving Up Airfreight Rates

The start of the airline summer season this month is likely to hit airfreight rates, due to an increasing amount of belly capacity on passenger routes. But right now, despite the major tradelanes not seeing significant changes, there remain pockets of high volumes.

Ex-India is still busy, say forwarders.

“Space is still congested across all India origin airports, as well transshipment points,” said Ligi Logistics.

“There is a severe backlog and congestion in Chennai, Mumbai, Delhi and Bengaluru, where off-loading is being badly delayed and time for off-loading of trucks is a minimum 36 to 44 hours.”

Read more in an article from The Loadstar.