Pay more or risk ‘an awful lot of cherry juice’: the perishables airfreight squeeze

Perishables shippers have limited room to absorb rising airfreight costs, airlines have warned, raising questions over how long some products can remain commercially viable to fly. While booming demand for AI infrastructure supports higher freight spending, flower and fruit exporters face a harder ceiling: what consumers will pay for their products. “Perishables are a very low-margin business, in which there is only so much the consumers will pay,” Fred Ruggiero, Cathay Cargo’s ... The post Pay more or risk ‘an awful lot of cherry juice’: the perishables airfreight squeeze appeared first on The Loadstar .