Air Freight news before February 2008

Transport Committee hears from CAA and MAG

Beyond Crews Control – shortage of pilots for Chinese air freight

(3.3.2008) More …..

Ethiopia is blooming due to troubles in Kenya so air freight is rising

(15.2.2008 More …..

International Air Freight Demand Slows in 2007 – IATA figures

(31.1.2008) More …..

Air freight – a useful background article on freight, trends and climate change

(11.12.2007) More …..

Soil Association – rule on flown-in organic food will change

Heathrow’s Air Cargo Soars, but declines at Gatwick and Stansted

(17.1.2008) More …..

Beijing-Hamburg train halves time taken by cargo by sea

(28.1.2008) More …..

Air freight fights for space – Christmas rush

26.11.2007 More …..

UK top for flying fashion

28.11.2007. More …..

Busy 2007 for British Airways World Cargo

30.11.2007 More …..

Air freighted food; freshly flown in?

Autumn 2007 More …..

Giant sail technology could cut shipping emissions

New storage means rise in food air-miles

Letter from Rose Bridger, in the Independent, (29.10.2007) More …..

Do consumer concerns – as with “clothes miles” – threaten fast fashion?

Examples of crazy cargo being air freighted – some really heavy stuff

Pentagon Hands Air Carriers $3.6 Billion

‘Food miles’ soared by 31% in a year, study reveals

Some bizarrely huge things that have been air freighted – a tram and a ferry
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EU rules change sees more post at Exeter Airport