{"id":17879,"date":"2026-05-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/the-global-air-cargo-market-is-demonstrating-growth-in-volumes-and-rates-against-the-backdrop-of-seasonal-demand-and-geopolitical-instability\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T00:00:00","slug":"the-global-air-cargo-market-is-demonstrating-growth-in-volumes-and-rates-against-the-backdrop-of-seasonal-demand-and-geopolitical-instability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ru\/the-global-air-cargo-market-is-demonstrating-growth-in-volumes-and-rates-against-the-backdrop-of-seasonal-demand-and-geopolitical-instability\/","title":{"rendered":"The global air cargo market is demonstrating growth in volumes and rates against the backdrop of seasonal demand and geopolitical instability."},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>According to WorldACD Market Data, during the last full week of April, global air cargo capacity and tonnage increased by another 3%. The primary driver was a seasonal factor: a surge in flower shipments from Central and South America boosted volumes by 19%, driven primarily by exports from Colombia and Ecuador to the US and Canada ahead of Mother\u2019s Day. Additional growth was recorded in the Asia-Pacific region (+3%) in the run-up to the May 1st holidays, while Europe and Africa showed stagnation, and North America saw a 2% decline.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, global volumes in Week 17 were 9% higher than a year earlier, with Europe gaining 20%, Asia 8%, and Central and South America 12%. At the same time, market pressure persists due to the conflict in the Middle East: volumes from the Middle East and South Asia region declined by 3% year-on-year, while Africa saw an 8% drop. Despite capacity increases in specific regions, global capacity remains 3% below pre-conflict escalation levels, with particularly sharp reductions observed in the Persian Gulf (\u201346%) and the Eastern Mediterranean (\u201320%).<\/p>\n<p>Capacity constraints, rising fuel prices, and availability disruptions continue to underpin high freight rates. In Week 17, average spot rates rose by 2% to $3.76 per kg, while the overall market rate increased by 1% to $3.19 per kg. On a year-on-year basis, spot rates remain approximately 45% higher, and overall market rates are up 30%. The sharpest increase in rates was recorded on the Middle East\u2013South Asia (+65%), North America (+60%), and Asia\u2013Pacific (+41%) routes, reflecting the ongoing restructuring of global supply chains.<\/p>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to WorldACD Market Data, during the last full week of April, global air cargo capacity and tonnage increased by another 3%. The primary driver was a seasonal factor: a surge in flower shipments from Central and South America boosted volumes by 19%, driven primarily by exports from Colombia and Ecuador to the US and Canada ahead of Mother\u2019s Day. Additional growth was recorded in the Asia-Pacific region (+3%) in the run-up to the May 1st holidays, while Europe and Africa showed stagnation, and North America saw a 2% decline.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}