{"id":14788,"date":"2026-04-01T18:12:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T18:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/fuel-surcharges-and-capacity-fall-trigger-airfreight-price-jumps-of-up-to-95\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T18:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T18:14:13","slug":"fuel-surcharges-and-capacity-fall-trigger-airfreight-price-jumps-of-up-to-95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/fuel-surcharges-and-capacity-fall-trigger-airfreight-price-jumps-of-up-to-95\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuel Surcharges and Capacity Fall Trigger Airfreight Price Jumps of Up to 95%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">International general airfreight rates surged by up to 95% between February and March, as reduced airfreight capacity and higher fuel prices caused by the Iran War threatened to bring prices back to COVID record levels.\u00a0<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0Drewry Airfreight Insight, airfreight rates from Shanghai to Dubai have soared 95% since the start of the war, to $8.60. Rates could exceed the 2020 pandemic record of $9.40 if fuel surcharges continue to rise.<\/p>\n<p>Cost pressures are being amplified by sharp increases in pricing components across specific routes: Fuel surcharges jumped by as much as 290% MoM in March from Singapore to London, while security surcharges rose 44% MoM on shipments from Dubai and Abu Dhabi to Amsterdam.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, airlines that transit the Middle East have seen curbed operations. All told, airfreight routes connected to the Middle East constitute 15.6% and 18.2% of airfreight traffic and capacity, respectively, while the ongoing conflict impacts air trade lanes beyond those originating from the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Read more in a\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/ciffa.apms5.com\/anywhere\/m?s=ciffa&amp;m=s_7863f4ab-de5f-4db1-b9cc-e91969867e13&amp;u=e1jq4wvfdtfm8dhg6n1k4hj45n2mad255mu36ha25n13ada35mt3jc1m6rtm8cj370uk8&amp;r2=d1u78w3k78qjyxvqewq68wk5ext7jbk3dwq7autfdtjqewtfctupav1deduq4rv8c5t6etbk5ngpwt1dcdgq0rb3d5u7jbb6c5p6rbbme9mpetv5e8pp2ubjctt6aub7d1u2uw3jd5hpabbaenpq0wtddxk2uxbg5nu6yb9t6m&amp;n=8\" href=\"https:\/\/ciffa.apms5.com\/anywhere\/m?s=ciffa&amp;m=s_7863f4ab-de5f-4db1-b9cc-e91969867e13&amp;u=e1jq4wvfdtfm8dhg6n1k4hj45n2mad255mu36ha25n13ada35mt3jc1m6rtm8cj370uk8&amp;r2=d1u78w3k78qjyxvqewq68wk5ext7jbk3dwq7autfdtjqewtfctupav1deduq4rv8c5t6etbk5ngpwt1dcdgq0rb3d5u7jbb6c5p6rbbme9mpetv5e8pp2ubjctt6aub7d1u2uw3jd5hpabbaenpq0wtddxk2uxbg5nu6yb9t6m&amp;n=8\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"0\">press release from Drewry<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International general airfreight rates surged by up to 95% between February and March, as reduced airfreight capacity and higher fuel prices caused by the Iran War threatened to bring prices back to COVID record levels.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":12988,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[369],"types-de-nouvelles":[],"class_list":["post-14788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-freight-news","tag-drewry-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14788","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=14788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14789,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14788\/revisions\/14789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14788"},{"taxonomy":"types-de-nouvelles","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types-de-nouvelles?post=14788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}