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May 28,2015 (newstodate): While the airfreight industry is still showing only limited over-all growth and cargo capacity on passenger aircraft is increasing, there is still a need for more freighter aircraft.
According to a fresh forecast from Air Cargo Management Group, a market research and consulting firm, the air freight market will need about 125 new freighters per year to meet growth and replacement needs over the next twenty years in a "baseline-growth" scenario, which is based on 4.5 percent annual growth in demand.
This compares to 95 freighters, including production units and P2F conversions, added per year from 1990-2014.
Even under a zero-growth scenario covering the next 20 years, there would be a need for about 60 added freighters per year to offset the capacity of freighters retired from the existing fleet.
The jet freighter fleet peaked in size at 1,800 units in 2006-2007, but then contracted. The fleet total has hovered around 1,600 units since 2009. The total increased by about 50 units in 2014, to reach a level of 1,609 by the start of 2015.
The baseline forecast calls for the fleet to grow to 2,887 units through 2034.
According to a fresh forecast from Air Cargo Management Group, a market research and consulting firm, the air freight market will need about 125 new freighters per year to meet growth and replacement needs over the next twenty years in a "baseline-growth" scenario, which is based on 4.5 percent annual growth in demand.
This compares to 95 freighters, including production units and P2F conversions, added per year from 1990-2014.
Even under a zero-growth scenario covering the next 20 years, there would be a need for about 60 added freighters per year to offset the capacity of freighters retired from the existing fleet.
The jet freighter fleet peaked in size at 1,800 units in 2006-2007, but then contracted. The fleet total has hovered around 1,600 units since 2009. The total increased by about 50 units in 2014, to reach a level of 1,609 by the start of 2015.
The baseline forecast calls for the fleet to grow to 2,887 units through 2034.