{"id":3875,"date":"2026-01-13T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/?p=3875"},"modified":"2026-01-13T11:25:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T03:25:59","slug":"air-cargo-demand-grew-4-in-2025-but-analysts-predict-slower-growth-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/cn\/air-cargo-demand-grew-4-in-2025-but-analysts-predict-slower-growth-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Air cargo demand grew 4% in 2025, but analysts predict slower growth this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to data provider Xeneta, the air cargo market closed 2025 with a 6% year-on-year increase in demand for December and an overall annual growth of 4%. Capacity rose 5% in December, and the dynamic load factor improved by one percentage point to 63%.<br><br>This represents interesting news for the U-Freight Group, with our strong presence in the expedited international airfreight sector, as well as the clients we serve.<br><br>Xeneta stated that the demand performance reflected shippers\u2019 willingness to shift to the speed and reliability of air cargo during times of disruption and economic uncertainty, a situation influenced by US tariffs.<br><br>For the coming year, Xeneta expects volume growth to moderate to an increase of 2-3%.\u00a0<br><br>Xeneta said that what happens next will be heavily influenced by what happens in e-commerce, a sector in which U-Freight has a very strong logistics presence.<br><br>For more information about the U-Freight Group\u2019s global air freight forwarding and logistics services, or our e-commerce logistics operations, please visit the relevant pages of this website or contact your local office, details of which can be seen here: <a href=\"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/cn\/locations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/ufreight.com\/locations<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to data provider Xeneta, the air cargo market closed 2025 with a 6% year-on-year increase in demand for December and an overall annual growth of 4%. Capacity rose 5% in December, and the dynamic load factor improved by one percentage point to 63%. This represents interesting news for the U-Freight Group, with our strong&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3235,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3876,"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3875\/revisions\/3876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}