In this issue

In this issue of The STAT Trade Times, Manjula Nair brings the focus to the Asian air cargo with her Cover Story. “With the Russia-Ukraine crisis and yet another onslaught of a tsunami-level Omicron tidal sweep, Asian air cargo markets were ricked by volatility and are yet to stabilise as market conditions remain fraught with many an ongoing crisis,” he writes.

Freight carried across Indian airports increased 27% to over 3 million tonnes in FY2022 compared to 2.5 million tonnes in 2021. Target is 10 million tonnes by 2030. Jyothi Shankaran writes about what are the challenges in his country report.

Lakshmi Ajay writes about ‘Tech’tonic shifts in air cargo industry highlighting the adoption of digital technologies. Is the air cargo industry a laggard when it comes to digital transformation,” she asks.

“Sustainability: The aviation industry's roadmap to a greener future” is a feature by Zinal Dedhia. She writes, “While sustainability is sometimes thought of as an ecologically oriented concept, it is actually a comprehensive strategy that examines three elements - ecological, social, and economic, all of which must be taken into account in order to achieve long-term success.”

We also have interviews with Parth Vaishnav – an assistant professor at the University of Michigan’s Centre for Sustainability talks about how automation may affect the hauliers in the USA and aviation lawyer Neha Singh speaks about why the international community is scared of the Indian aviation financing market and the ways to resolve them.

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