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Despite ongoing geopolitical headwinds, the majority of airfreight analysts say that 2024 may herald the start of a new economic growth cycle for the global air cargo industry.

Despite a list of lingering challenges, there are a number of positive factors driving today’s air cargo markets, including the increase of airfreight fleets across different regions as well as returning passenger flights—which has only increased cargo capacity and market reach. Here’s what air shippers need to know as we roll through 2023.

Even with a strong recovery in revenue, the IATA maintains that air cargo did not meet its full growth potential last year. In the meantime, tight capacity, labor shortages, infrastructure shortfalls—and now the Russian invasion of Ukraine—continue to cloud the forecast in this vital sector.

Earlier this week, Atlanta-based Roadie, an on-the-way delivery service with the nation’s largest local same-day footprint, and Delta Cargo, the air cargo subsidiary of Delta Airlines, announced they have partnered up for a 24/7 pick-up and delivery service, from a business or home, originating in Atlanta to more than 55 United States-based cities, with plans to expand the service to several more cities by the end of 2019.