Taiwan Freight Report
Taiwan’s international airlines were for years relegated to bystanders who could only tap into China’s airfreight boom through interline deals. Now the pair see the door to the grand prize finally ease open a fraction just when the market is running out of steam.
At the end of June, the mainland and Taiwan finally agreed on regular weekend flights between the two territories.
The deal is limited to passenger flights at the moment, but operators are viewing it as a prelude to full passenger and cargo access.
No longer will China Airlines and EVA have to content themselves with interline traffic over Hong Kong and Macau and sea-air cargo trickling into their home market from across the Taiwan Strait.
Forwarder Agility has seen growing interest in the hybrid mode for shipments out of northern and eastern China, but most of this traffic moves via Korea.
James Gagne, chief executive officer for Greater China, said, ‘Taiwan, compared to Korea — especially for cargo from northern China — is not very viable.’
Ole Ringheim, senior vice president, airfreight for the Asia-Pacific region at DHL Global Forwarding, ‘The Taiwan airfreight market is relatively flat and has been the ‘worst’ performing Asian airfreight market for the past three years. The economy is good, but there is lots of outsourcing of manufacturing facilities to China and other countries.’
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Source: Air Cargo World Online