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AIR FREIGHT UPDATES Air Canada Gets Two Week Ban On Vancouver Hong Kong Route simpleflying.com Air Canada is banned from flying passengers into Hong Kong for two weeks. The sudden move is due to the fact that Hong Kong authorities had detected a case coming in from an October 13th flight from Vancouver. The airline has canceled a number...

AIR FREIGHT UPDATES Airfreight capacity predicted to tighten in the coming weeks lloydsloadinglist.com Airfreight capacity looks set to tighten further in the coming weeks as demand continues its upward trend for the looming peak season. Niall van de Wouw, managing director at air cargo industry analysts, CLIVE Data Services, said: “It...

  AIR FREIGHT UPDATES Air cargo handling has become a ‘bottleneck’ lloydsloadinglist.com A change in the ‘structure’ of air cargo triggered by Covid-19 and furthered by rapid e-commerce growth has led to cargo ground handling emerging as a ‘bottleneck’ in the overall air logistics supply chain, slowing transit times...

AIR FREIGHT UPDATES Early planning the cause of September rate rise aircargonews.net Airfreight rates on major east-west trade lanes in September rose at a faster rate than last year as companies sought to avoid a peak season crunch. The latest data from the Baltic Exchange Airfreight Index shows that in September prices from Hong Kong...

AIR FREIGHT UPDATES Air freight load factors soar as peak season demand steps up lloydsloadinglist.com Air cargo load factors and air freight rates continued their expected peak season climb in September, according to the latest global market data from industry analysts CLIVE Data Services. CLIVE’s ‘dynamic loadfactor’ – which...