Another Year Goes By

As another very eventful year draws to a close, we wish to take this opportunity to thank our readers for their interest, our advertisers for their support and all those who contributed articles and their views in CargoForwarder Global during 2018.
We are proud of the fact that our regular subscriber list now totals almost 30,000 - many thanks for your support.

It has in many respects proven to be a very turbulent and interesting year.

The air cargo industry has seen many changes, as well as ups-and-downs.
Although by year end, we may see that the general cargo flow will have tapered off somewhat compared to the previous year - we can still look back on positive developments and indicators during 2018.
Luckily the price of oil has dropped considerably, and this will hopefully turn out to be a benefit for the airlines in the coming year.
However, some indicators show that maybe the growth of the air cargo market may soften somewhat in 2019. IATA’s market update predicts only a 3.7% increase in volumes in 2019 compared to 4.1% for this year. Still not bad, so long as the yields hold steady.

The e-commerce traffic development in 2018 has proven to be a future indicator as to which direction the air cargo industry will have to adjust itself in the future.
There is much to be achieved in this respect and all players in the supply chain will, we think, have to become even more active in order to keep abreast with this movement.
If not - some will miss out altogether!