Air freight market becomes a bright spot for Boeing in China
By Stella Qiu and Jamie Freed
Reuters
BEIJING/SYDNEY (Reuters) - Boeing Co, struggling in China with sales of passenger planes due to trade tensions and the grounding of its 737 MAX, is upbeat about the outlook for freighter plane sales there as e-commerce demand booms.
A three-year deadlock on Boeing plane orders was broken last May when China Cargo Airlines, owned by China Eastern Airlines Corp Ltd, placed an order for two 777 widebody freighters. Boeing s website shows 24 of the type have been delivered to China. We ve seen this really explosive demand for dedicated freighter airplanes in the last year, said Richard Wynne, managing director of China marketing at Boeing Commercial Airplanes.
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Fed up with cargo congestion, freight forwarders flee O’Hare airport
Responsive service in Rockford attracts freighter operators to alternative Midwest gateway
0 25 8 minutes read Chicago O Hare freighter ramp. Airport warehouses are overrun with cargo, creating shipping delays for importers and exporters. (Photo: Flickr/formulanone CC BY 2.0)
Cargo congestion has gone from bad to worse at Chicago O’Hare International Airport, forcing importers to wait several days to retrieve shipments and prompting two large logistics companies to migrate airfreight operations an hour west to an uncrowded facility in Rockford, Illinois.
There is so much cargo piling up at O’Hare that airline-handling agents for the first time in memory are actually renting warehouses in surrounding townships to hold the overflow until it can be sorted for customer pickup, local trucking and logistics professionals say.