THE GLOBAL cargo fleet is expected to increase by 3 000 new and converted freighters by 2022, according to Boeing and Airbus.
US-based Aviation Week reports that half of the added freighters will be wide-body aircraft.
Trickle traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, hugging the Iranian coastline at Qeshm and the islands of Hormuz and Larak, has brought no significant change to the closed-off waterway.Source: Research Gate
A new Sea-Intelligence analysis warns that resuming Suez transits could release 2.1 million TEU of capacity but may also unleash a wave of congestion at European ports.
