Air cargo demand continued to soar in July with the latest IATA statistics showing a year-on-year increase of 13.6% on the back of issues on the ocean and the continued e-commerce boom.
The airline association said that cargo tonne kms had now registered a double-digit percentage increase for eight months in a row, with overall levels reaching heights not see since the Covid-fuelled surge of 2021.
Meanwhile, capacity in July increased at the lower level of 8.3% on last year helping to push load factors up by 2.1 percentage points to 44.4%.
