{"id":12160,"date":"2025-03-25T19:02:12","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T19:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/forwarders-predict-fall-in-airfreight-rates-as-e-commerce-eyes-sea-freight\/"},"modified":"2025-03-25T19:02:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T19:02:40","slug":"forwarders-predict-fall-in-airfreight-rates-as-e-commerce-eyes-sea-freight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/forwarders-predict-fall-in-airfreight-rates-as-e-commerce-eyes-sea-freight\/","title":{"rendered":"Forwarders Predict Fall in Airfreight Rates as E-Commerce Eyes Sea Freight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Forwarders are warning that, although the airfreight market currently seems stable, conditions could change very quickly, and the longer-term outlook could be challenging for airlines as e-commerce platforms look to sea freight instead.\u00a0<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo far, volumes from China to the U.S. have not reduced significantly, but it is very much dependent on U.S. tariff policy; so it could go upside down overnight,\u201d said one Shanghai-based airfreight forwarder.<\/p>\n<p>The forwarder said e-commerce is likely to become a less reliable source of tonnage for carriers, which could hit rates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom what I understand, the e-commerce platforms are all preparing to send cargo by sea, then keep the shipments in overseas facilities\/bonded areas, to make final deliveries when the orders are placed. Sending those shipments by air won\u2019t work for most e-commerce in the long run.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more in an\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/ciffa.apms5.com\/anywhere\/m?s=ciffa&amp;m=s_1cdf7743-547a-46e0-bcf8-42efbe1c332c&amp;u=e1jq4wvfdtfm8dhg6n1k4hj45n2mad255mu36ha25n13ada35mt3jc1m6rtm8cj370uk8&amp;r2=d1u78w3k78qjyx38cnp6yrb4edu62whecdqpubv6dxt7erbjchjq4wtde1t6at39cdu2utk1dhp2uube5ngpjwk6e9jpjtv8egpq4rbmcntjurbk5njp6vvddnjq4rv55njqjtbk5ntpar9dctt6aub7d1u2y&amp;n=6\" href=\"https:\/\/ciffa.apms5.com\/anywhere\/m?s=ciffa&amp;m=s_1cdf7743-547a-46e0-bcf8-42efbe1c332c&amp;u=e1jq4wvfdtfm8dhg6n1k4hj45n2mad255mu36ha25n13ada35mt3jc1m6rtm8cj370uk8&amp;r2=d1u78w3k78qjyx38cnp6yrb4edu62whecdqpubv6dxt7erbjchjq4wtde1t6at39cdu2utk1dhp2uube5ngpjwk6e9jpjtv8egpq4rbmcntjurbk5njp6vvddnjq4rv55njqjtbk5ntpar9dctt6aub7d1u2y&amp;n=6\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"1\">article from The Loadstar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forwarders are warning that, although the airfreight market currently seems stable, conditions could change very quickly, and the longer-term outlook could be challenging for airlines as e-commerce platforms look to sea freight instead.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":12158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[1673],"types-de-nouvelles":[],"class_list":["post-12160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-freight-news","tag-e-commerce-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12161,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12160\/revisions\/12161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12160"},{"taxonomy":"types-de-nouvelles","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types-de-nouvelles?post=12160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}