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NewsAirfreight market "getting pretty nasty" as rates fall
Airlines are offering lower airfreight rates to avoid losing volumes despite data showing that demand declines have bottomed out.The latest market analysis from Xeneta's CLIVE Data Services shows that in June chargeable weight declined 1% compared with a year ago, while capacity was up 8% and dynamic load factors were ...
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NewsAir cargo demand drops again in July as dark clouds gather
Air cargo demand fell for the fifth month in a row in July as the industry continues to face a "multitude of disruptions", according to CLIVE Data Services.The Xeneta-owned data provider said that during July air cargo demand dropped by 9% year on year and the dynamic load factor - ...
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Airfreight rates on key lanes fall in June
Airfreight rates on key east-west trade lanes fell in June as the air cargo market enters the quieter summer period.The latest figures from the Baltic Exchange Airfreight Index (BAI) show that airfreight rates from Hong Kong to North America dropped by 10.1% in June compared with May to $8.72 per ...
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NewsDisruption continues to hit air cargo as volumes drop again in April
The air cargo industry continues to be buffeted by a range of issues that resulted in volume declines deepening in April, according to figures from CLIVE Data Services.The Xeneta-owned data provider's latest numbers show that air cargo volumes decline by 8% year on year in April following on from a ...
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Airfreight rates end the year on a high
Airfreight rates on major trade lanes ended the year on a high as supply chains remained under pressure.The latest figures from the Baltic Exchange Airfreight Index (BAI) show that average prices from Hong Kong to North America in December reached $12.72 per kg - their highest level of the year ...
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NewsCLIVE: Vietnam and Shanghai disruptions impact airfreight rates in August
Airfreight rates continued to climb past pre-Covid levels in August, as a strict local lockdown in Vietnam and the closure of cargo terminals at Shanghai Pudong International Airport highlighted the "fragility" of supply chains.In its latest airfreight market analysis, CLIVE Data Services said the "resilient" international demand for air cargo ...
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InsightsCLIVE: Carriers tweak capacity as load factors weaken in July
Air cargo dynamic load factors hit their lowest level since the start of the Covid-pandemic in July as the industry entered the summer slack season, according to the latest figures from CLIVE Data Services.CLIVE data shows that dynamic load factors stood at 66% in July, which is down by three ...
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NewsCLIVE: Air cargo bounces back in April
Air cargo volumes returned to pre-covid levels in April after a drop off in March while the overall market remains strained, according to the latest statistics from CLIVE Data Services.Figures from the data provider show that cargo tonnages increased by 1% in April compared with the same month in 2019 ...
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NewsCLIVE: Air cargo recovery stalls in March but space remains tight
The recovery in air cargo demand appears to have stalled in March, according to the latest statistics from CLIVE Data Services.Figures from the data provider show that volumes in March declined by 3% compared with March 2019 (pre-Covid), while in February demand was down 1% on two years earlier.The early ...
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NewsAir cargo makes recovery "that passenger departments will be dreaming of"
The latest data form CLIVE Data Services and TAC Index suggests that in the last 10 months, global air cargo volumes have recovered to pre-Covid levels, demonstrating the "robustness" of the market and "a recovery that airline passenger departments will be dreaming of".In its February 2021 report, analyst CLIVE Data ...
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Cargo load factors remain strong despite Chinese New Year
Air cargo load factors remained strong during the Chinese New Year as demand did not fall as strongly as it has in the past.Statistics from CLIVE Data Services show that in the first week of the Chinese New Year, which this year started on February 12, services from China to ...
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NewsTIACA calls for an end to 'misleading' weight-based load factor
TIACA is calling for the air cargo industry to adopt the dynamic load factor developed by CLIVE Data Services over the "misleading" traditional weight-based system.The dynamic load factor methodology measures how full an aircraft is by considering both freight volume and weight, rather than just weight, as aircraft often reach ...
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NewsCLIVE: Airfreight market improves for fourth consecutive month
The airfreight market has showed signs of improvement for the fourth consecutive month, CLIVE Data Services' and TAC Index's latest data has shown."Year-on-year growth during August showed a further narrowing of the gap in international air cargo volumes to -17% versus August 2019," the analysts said.By comparison, there was a ...
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NewsAir cargo demand continues its gradual recovery
The latest figures from CLIVE Data Services show that air cargo volumes continued to climb in July, while load factors for the month remained ahead of last year's levels.Airfreight volumes were 20% down on a year ago in July, but this is an improvement on the drops of 26% (April), ...
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NewsCLIVE: Airfreight industry is slowly getting back on its feet
Airfreight market analyst CLIVE Data Services has said the industry is "slowly getting back up on its feet" after reporting that volumes in June this year were 6% higher than in May."As personal protective equipment (PPE) volumes faded, global air cargo volumes in June provided the first real indicators of ...
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NewsAir cargo load factors reach two-year high
Air cargo load factors have reached their highest level since at least 2018, according to the latest analysis from CLIVE Data Services.Figures from the data provider show that dynamic load factors - based on volume rather than weight - have now hit 71%, representing the highest level since the company ...
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NewsCLIVE Data Services: Calculating the positives
Is a passenger aircraft bellyhold half empty or half full? Does the airfreight industry need another way to measure capacity utilisation, rather than the long-established weight-based load factor?Niall van de Wouw, managing director of CLIVE Data Services, believes so — and that the global utilisation of air cargo capacity is ...
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NewsAir cargo market improves in May but volatility remains
The month of May 2020 was not as bad for the global air cargo industry as April 2020, CLIVE Data Services has reported in its latest airfreight load factor analysis.CLIVE explained that there was a "slight upward curve" in airfreight volumes, due to the reported -31% year-on-year decline in May ...
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NewsAir cargo in stable condition following coronavirus crisis
CLIVE managing director Niall van de Wouw provides an update on the latest market statisticsWhen the status of a patient submitted into hospital is described as ‘stable’ it often means that they are not well at all, but that, for the time being, their condition is not getting worse. The ...
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NewsCLIVE: Do April's air cargo volumes offer a glimmer of hope?
While air cargo volumes diminished rapidly in March, new data for April offers some hope that leading economists are right and the decline in the global economy is ‘bottoming out’.CLIVE Data Services’ ‘dynamic load factor’ for April of 67%, based on both the volume and weight perspectives of cargo flown ...