# Growth in air freight

**URL:** <https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/growth-in-air-freight/810>\
**Category:** The Happening World\
**Tags:** cargo-aircraft, a350f, air-freight\
**Created:** [31 January 2022 11:26 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/growth-in-air-freight/810 "2022-01-31T11:26:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![CTLaw](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/user_avatar/scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/ctlaw/32/42_2.png) [@CTLaw](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/CTLaw)\
**Post date:** [31 January 2022 11:26 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/growth-in-air-freight/810/1 "2022-01-31T11:26:18Z")

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> …in the first 10 months of 2021, 78.9 million kg of car parts [were sent by air from Asia to the US](https://www.joc.com/air-cargo/trans-pac-shippers-forced-out-ocean-transport-dig-deep-air-option_20211215.html) - a staggering increase from the 3 million kg shipped during the same period in 2020.

> **[The scramble for cargo aircraft as shipping costs soar](https://www.bbc.com/news/business-59957410)**
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> Cargo aircraft are being rushed into service amid a worldwide shortage in shipping capacity.

[![](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/uploads/default/original/2X/d/d57d4d2292cbbf23308e9cf9397bebdb3cf7f445.jpeg "Eastern Airlines Secures 35 Boeing 777s For Freighter Use") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLsc-POSCWo)

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**Author:** ![Devereaux](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/user_avatar/scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/devereaux/32/285_2.png) [@Devereaux](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/Devereaux)\
**Post date:** [1 February 2022 04:03 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/growth-in-air-freight/810/2 "2022-02-01T04:03:42Z")

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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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**Author:** ![CTLaw](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/user_avatar/scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/ctlaw/32/42_2.png) [@CTLaw](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/CTLaw)\
**Post date:** [1 February 2022 04:07 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/growth-in-air-freight/810/3 "2022-02-01T04:07:53Z")

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

> **[California’s Inane Laws and The Port Problem Are Spreading East - Granite Grok](https://granitegrok.com/blog/2021/10/californias-inane-laws-and-the-port-problem-are-spreadng-east)**
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> If you read the news online, it often claims that the California port situation is caused by a driver shortage. But wait, hold your horses: it is in part caused by a driver shortage but what has driven this numbers shortfall? In 2020, all CA trucks...

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**Author:** ![ra\_montesano](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/user_avatar/scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/ra_montesano/32/117_2.png) [@ra\_montesano](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/ra_montesano)\
**Post date:** [2 February 2022 03:53 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/growth-in-air-freight/810/4 "2022-02-02T03:53:39Z")

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