{"id":4238,"date":"2026-05-29T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/?p=4238"},"modified":"2026-06-01T11:54:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T03:54:46","slug":"air-cargo-demand-returned-to-growth-in-april-says-iata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/tc\/air-cargo-demand-returned-to-growth-in-april-says-iata\/","title":{"rendered":"Air cargo demand returned to growth in April, says IATA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With our strong presence in the expedited international airfreight sector, the U-Freight Group notes that IATA reports that air cargo demand returned to growth in April after recording a decline in March due to the Middle East conflict.<br><br>The latest statistics from IATA show that in April, air cargo traffic in cargo tonne km terms increased by 4% year on year, while capacity was down by 0.4% and the cargo load factor improved by 1.9 percentage points on last year to 46%.<br><br>The demand increase follows a 4.8% fall in cargo traffic in March caused by the Middle East conflict.<br><br>IATA director general Willie Walsh said: &#8220;This positive news masks a more complex operating environment. Severe disruption at major Gulf hubs due to the war in the Middle East continued to reshape trade routes and constrain capacity on key corridors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWith dedicated freighters carrying much of the growth, air cargo is once again keeping supply chains moving amid trade disruptions.<br><br>\u201cThe coming months will test how well the sector can absorb continued geopolitical uncertainty and elevated operating costs.\u201d 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\/tc\/locations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/ufreight.com\/locations<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With our strong presence in the expedited international airfreight sector, the U-Freight Group notes that IATA reports that air cargo demand returned to growth in April after recording a decline in March due to the Middle East conflict. The latest statistics from IATA show that in April, air cargo traffic in cargo tonne km terms&#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-4238","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\/4238","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=4238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4239,"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4238\/revisions\/4239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}