All WorldACD articles – Page 4

  • WorldACD - April 2019
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    Air cargo faces a bleak outlook as demand declines in April

    2019-05-31T16:05:19Z

    Analyst WorldACD has warned that air cargo markets are continuing to erode as uncertainty grows.Numbers from the data firm show that cargo volumes (chargeable weight) declined by 5.4% year on year in April.WorldACD searched for some positives, but said that overall there was no avoiding the tough market conditions.“For quite ...

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    Cargo demand continues to shrink in March

    2019-05-02T08:47:16Z

    Cargo demand declined again in March as the Asia Pacific region continues to stutter.Figures from WorldACD show that cargo demand in chargeable weight declined by 2.4% year on year in March, resulting in the first quarter registering a fall of 3.1%. General cargo in March was down by 4.8%, while ...

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    Turkish Cargo beats the February blues with demand increase

    2019-04-09T13:54:03Z

    Turkish Cargo managed to record an increase in cargo demand in February despite the overall industry reporting a decrease.The airline said its cargo volumes increased by 9.6% year on year during the month, according to figures from analyst WorldACD, while the overall industry registered a 5.8% decrease.During the first two ...

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    Another demand decline for air cargo in February

    2019-04-02T08:44:25Z

    Air cargo continued to see airfreight demand decline on a year ago in February, with the Asia Pacific region coming under particular pressure.WorldACD figures show that in February air cargo demand in terms of chargeable weight decreased by 5.8% year on year, while cargo load factors were down by three ...

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    Airfreight rate growth plateaus in February

    2019-03-07T16:46:58Z

    Airfreight rate growth on major east-west lanes appears to have plateaued in February as the cargo market has had a weak start to the year.Figures from data provider Tac Index show that rates on the transpacific and the transatlantic both declined on year ago in February, while on Asia-Europe there ...

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    Perishables, pharma and high-tech mitigate January drop in total air cargo volume

    2019-03-04T08:23:22Z

    January 2019 another volume drop in total chargeable air cargo weight, this time of 2% year on year (YoY), coupled with a dollar yield drop of 2.5%, confirming a trend seen over a number of months said market analyst WorldACD in its latest report.The smaller regions of Africa and Central ...