Growth in air freight

…in the first 10 months of 2021, 78.9 million kg of car parts were sent by air from Asia to the US - a staggering increase from the 3 million kg shipped during the same period in 2020.

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Air is inherently not very cost effective compared to other means of transport. It is only because of that moron in DC that this has become useful on such a large scale.

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There is also a moron in California who has screwed up the ports.

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However, during peak fear of Covid-19, airplanes were an underutilize resource and thus more economic than during “normal” times.