The county won control of the air-freight park and may be able to reuse it.
And consumer tastes for out-of-season vegetables, exotic fish and fresh flowers have also added to the demand for air-freight services.
The pesticide-free cooking roses used by most American chefs come from organic gardeners in California who air-freight them to specialty food suppliers around the country.
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In the British Airways lawsuits, lawyers representing a pair of flower importers tried to enlarge the class to include hundreds of additional plaintiffs who supposedly lost money due to the air-freight cartel.
Some purchased air-freight services at inflated prices directly.
Companies producing perishable goods frequently use air-freight.
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All is at a delicate equilibrium, until the owner feels compelled to give in to a firmly worded request from the retailer for an additional discount, or a demand to air-freight, at manufacturer's expense, some boxes of shirts that suffered a two-week production delay and now won't be accepted by the retailer if they're any later than they already are.
We have also developed COSAC-AWB (Air Way Bill) and COSAC-Customs, to facilitate the industry adoption of digital air way bills and eventually e-freight.
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The Memphis-based company now has three distinct divisions: large ground freight, ground parcels and air express--with newly integrated information systems, sales and billing.
FedEx Express reported a sharp 13% decline in international priority freight revenues, while international air freight revenues fell by 17% year-on-year during the third quarter.
It hopes that companies will be attracted to a service that offers seven-day, door-to-door delivery for half the price of air freight delivery of four to six days.
Most unprepared of all was chief air-cargo operator HACTL, which was forced to stop processing freight at its spanking new Super Terminal 1.
Overall, the air freight pounds are expected to grow at a modest 2-3% annual rate as the integration of world economies over time will increasingly drive movement of small shipments directly from the point of production to the consumer.
And Stalk points out that air freight, thought to save the day for lightweight or high-value goods, is facing its own overload from unbuilt runways and a scarcity of planes.
The 8, 600-employee sorting center in Louisville, UPS' largest for air freight, processes 304, 000 packages an hour but could be modified to handle 500, 000 if UPS could get the planes in and out faster.
Contrary to the obvious assumption, rising fuel prices might actually cause the use of ships for freight, as manufacturers reduce fuel use not by shipping things shorter distances, but by relying more heavily on efficient sea freight at the expense of less efficient land- and air-based modes of transport.
Impressive growth in air freight is largely a result of growing demand for transportation for high-value and perishable consumer goods.
After all, not only is the airline America's biggest freight-carrier to Asia, but it is the only convenient air access for big swathes of the mid-west.
Moreover, continuing shift in freight traffic from air to the sea, driven by higher fuel prices is not helping the air-cargo industry at all.
"We're probably the only people in the world selling socks brought in by air freight, " says Sunakoshi Yukio, spokesman for Wix, the Japanese distributor for the New York-based manufacturers.
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