Cathy Morrow Roberson, founder and lead analyst at Logistics Trends & Insights, joins me to discuss the air cargo capacity crunch and modal shift:
- Reduced numbers of flights
- Essential vs non-essential cargo during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Repurposed passenger aircraft carrying cargo
- Moving air cargo to rail
- Rail's advantages over air and sea (ocean) cargo
- Mail trains running from China to Europe
- Direct-to-consumer shipping from China
- Speed of long-distance shipping
- Will air cargo volumes recover post-coronavirus?
- A recession and the impact on air capacity
- Creative solutions - including Ukrposhta's charter flight
- Multi-modal transport
- Domestic air cargo alternatives
- Impact on Amazon Prime's delivery promise
- Meeting fast delivery demands without using aircraft
- Inland ports / hubs
- Rail congestion in the USA
