{"id":3599,"date":"2025-09-05T16:31:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T08:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/?p=3599"},"modified":"2025-09-05T16:32:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T08:32:00","slug":"global-air-cargo-demand-climbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/tc\/global-air-cargo-demand-climbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Global air cargo demand climbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The International Air Transport Association (IATA) reported a 5.5% increase in global air cargo demand in July 2025 compared to the same month in 2024, with international operations up 6.0%. Capacity also rose by 3.9% year-on-year.<br><br>That made interesting reading for the U-Freight Group with our strong presence in the expedited international airfreight arena.<br><br>IATA added that most major trade lanes reported growth, with one significant exception: Asia\u2013North America, where demand was down 1.0% year-on-year.<br><br>It explained that a sharp decline in e-commerce, as the US de minimis exemptions on small shipments expired, was likely offset by shippers frontloading goods in advance of rising tariffs for imports to the USA.\u00a0 \u00a0<br><br>In IATA&#8217;s opinion, August will likely reveal more clearly the impact of shifting US trade policies.<br><br>While much attention is rightly being focused on developments in markets connected to the USA, it is important to keep a broad perspective on the global network, said the trade association.<br><br>It explained that a fifth of air cargo travels on the Europe\u2013Asia trade lane, which marked 29 months of consecutive expansion with 13.5% year-on-year growth in July.<br><br>The full article, which includes comprehensive tonnage figures for a variety of trade lanes, can be read here:<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iata.org\/en\/pressroom\/2025-releases\/2025-08-29-01\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.iata.org\/en\/pressroom\/2025-releases\/2025-08-29-01\/<\/a><br><br>For more information about the U-Freight Group&#8217;s 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\/tc\/locations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/ufreight.com\/locations<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Air Transport Association (IATA) reported a 5.5% increase in global air cargo demand in July 2025 compared to the same month in 2024, with international operations up 6.0%. Capacity also rose by 3.9% year-on-year. That made interesting reading for the U-Freight Group with our strong presence in the expedited international airfreight arena. IATA&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2736,"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-3599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3599"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3601,"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3599\/revisions\/3601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}