The global air cargo market is on course for +3-4% growth in demand in 2025 based on current trading conditions, but after unexpectedly high volumes over the summer, September’s data showed signs of growth slowing heading into the final quarter of the year, according to industry analysts Xeneta. ...

Global air cargo spot rates declined for a second consecutive month in June, down -4% year-on-year as supply of capacity overtook demand for the first time in 19 months, and concerns over a more challenging second half of 2025 rose on the back of uncertainty over the prospects for international trad...

While international trade continued to flow in May and global air cargo volumes rose +6% year-on-year, market sentiment and concerns over what comes next saw airfreight spot rates decline for the first time in a year, according to Xeneta’s latest market analysis. Midway through the month, the g...

E-commerce volumes, for so long the saviour of global air cargo demand, are today facing up to the ‘seismic shock’ of the United States’ ‘Liberation Day’ global tariffs announcement, while the general cargo market is also revaluating its future as shippers, forwarders, airlines, and consum...

The global air cargo market started 2025 with lower-than-expected growth, recording a 2% year-on-year increase in January, significantly below the double-digit monthly gains seen throughout 2024. Despite this slowdown, industry analysts at Xeneta caution against premature fears of a trade war imp...

The global air cargo market wrapped up 2024 on a high note, marking 14 consecutive months of double-digit demand growth. December saw an 11% year-on-year increase in volumes, while average spot rates ended the year 15% higher, according to analysts at Xeneta. However, the industry faces 2025 w...

The global air cargo market is on a pathway to double-digit growth in volumes in 2024 after a +12% year-on-year jump in demand in May, according to the latest data analysis by Xeneta. Despite conservative, low single digit industry growth forecasts at the end of last year, expectations have been ...

According to the latest data from Xeneta, the global air cargo market witnessed an unexpected surge in demand, rising by 11% year-on-year for the third consecutive month in March. This growth, fueled by buoyant e-commerce volumes and concerns over disruptions in the Red Sea region affecting ocean...

Global air cargo volumes rose by a surprise but welcome 10% year-on-year in January as shippers’ concerns over hostilities in the Red Sea and an early Lunar New Year more than compensated for an anticipated post-Christmas drop in ecommerce traffic, according to the latest weekly market analysis by...

Global air cargo volumes and spot rates inched up slightly in October, offering a glimmer of hope for airlines and freight forwarders. However, overall demand remained subdued, dampening expectations of a traditional year-end revenue boost, according to the latest weekly market analysis by Xeneta. ...

The global air cargo spot rate flattened to USD 2.19 per kg in August, its lowest level since the onset of the pandemic as another weak summer month saw chargeable weight edge -1% lower for a fourth consecutive month, according to the latest weekly market analysis from CLIVE Data Services, part of X...

Shippers will hold the upper hand in the next round of winter airfreight rates negotiations after another month of falling demand in July saw volumes drop -2% month-over-month, and the general global air freight spot rate decline at a hastening pace of 40% or more for a fourth consecutive month, acc...

Tension is mounting in the global air cargo market heading into the weaker summer months with general airfreight rates falling in May to their lowest level since March 2020 as restless airlines and freight forwarders went in search of volumes, indicates the latest weekly market analysis by CLIVE Dat...

The global air cargo market may have to ‘hang on until October’ for signs of a recovery after a flood of summer bellyhold capacity on major lanes and a -4% drop in demand in April indicated a challenging 4-5 months ahead, according to new weekly analysis from CLIVE Data Services, part of Xeneta....

Longer-term contracts between shippers and freight forwarders may signal ‘more common ground’ in a stabilising global air cargo market which saw demand dip at a slower -3% year-over-year in March, according to the latest weekly market insight from industry analysts CLIVE Data Services, part of X...