How to Use airfreight in a Sentence

airfreight

noun

• But even in normal times, airfreight is roughly eight times the cost of sea shipment.
  — New York Times, 6 Mar. 2021
• Flights for airfreight rose 4% at MSP last year, and military flights were up 32%.
  — Jackie Crosby, Star Tribune, 29 Jan. 2021
• But airfreight isn’t an option for many shippers because of the expense.
  — Paul Berger, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2021
• Most airfreight is carried in the cargo holds of passenger jets.
  — New York Times, 6 Mar. 2021
• The company has said the boom in airfreight helped drive record orders and 41 deliveries for its freighters last year.
  — Andrew Tangel, WSJ, 31 Jan. 2022
• The firm is jumping into the business amid signs that a boom in airfreight demand appears to be tapering off.
  — Erica E. Phillips, WSJ, 4 Jan. 2019
• As the conflict broadens, shipments are slowing at ports and airfreight terminals around the world.
  — Peter S. Goodman, BostonGlobe.com, 16 June 2018
• Workers in a cold room handing boxes of flowers, a mainstay of airfreight, in Nairobi, Kenya.
  — Doug Cameron, WSJ, 29 Aug. 2021
• About half the world’s airfreight typically moves in the bellies of passenger aircraft, while the rest travels aboard air freighters.
  — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2020
• The company plans to achieve this partly by relying less on airfreight and shipping more products by sea, truck or rail.
  — Nina Trentmann, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2022
• Per pound, costs for airfreight worldwide are up by some 75%, according to data provider WorldACM.
  — Jon Gambrell, Star Tribune, 9 May 2021
• This innovation allowed the fish to be shipped with airfreight, landing on customers’ doorsteps within just 24 to 48 hours.
  — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Aug. 2022
• Her father, John, owned an airfreight company, and her mother, Anne (Duffy) Murphy, worked with him and also designed bridal wear.
  — New York Times, 3 July 2021
• Her company has turned to far more expensive airfreight to get some shipments to the United States faster, further cutting into the firm’s margins.
  — New York Times, 16 Jan. 2022
• In 2010, for example, the eruption of a volcano in Iceland spewed fine particles into the atmosphere and brought air travel and airfreight over Europe to a halt.
  — Jack Ewing, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020
• The imposition of tariffs by the U.S. and China on imports have led to sharp drops in May airfreight traffic, measured by tons over distance flown, down 4.7% compared with the year prior figure.
  — Costas Paris, WSJ, 25 June 2019
• The company saw its airfreight costs go up as a result of the pandemic, and faces delays to its plan to relocate some of its manufacturing from China to Malaysia.
  — Mark Maurer, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2020
• Cargo rates jumped after thousands of passenger planes, which carry more than half of airfreight, were grounded due to the travel restrictions.
  — Fortune, 19 Oct. 2020
• Drug companies, which already use airfreight to ship some of the most perishable medicines, could resort to more plane shipments in extreme Brexit conditions.
  — Max Colchester, WSJ, 31 Dec. 2018
• Companies can also take advantage of the de minimis rule using ocean shipping, which is cheaper than airfreight.
  — Josh Zumbrun, WSJ, 25 Apr. 2022
• Many airfreight companies have seized the opportunity to grow and, as this column predicted in early 2020, Amazon has taken the lead.
  — Jon Sindreu, WSJ, 16 Mar. 2022
• Experts say the late surge is being driven by accelerating e-commerce growth, which is driving a big increase in airfreight and ocean shipments across the Pacific.
  — Paul Page, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2017
• Both ocean and airfreight are major producers of the gases contributing to climate change, accounting for about 5% of global carbon emissions.
  — Keith Bradsher, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Sep. 2022
• As airfreight capacity has fallen, demand has grown as the United States brings in medical supplies from overseas to battle the virus and consumers shift their shopping online to avoid stores.
  — Ian Duncan, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2020
• Colgate Palmolive used more costly airfreight to ship its toothpaste and toothbrushes.
  — Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2021
• One move to accommodate demand involved using airfreight rather than cargo ships to speed up shipping from QBP’s suppliers.
  — Bob Timmons, Star Tribune, 3 Sep. 2020
• Both ocean and airfreight are major producers of the gases contributing to climate change, accounting for about 5 percent of global carbon emissions.
  — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2022
• As a result, some impatient African shippers are switching to more expensive airfreight for high-value goods or less efficient bulk shipments for goods such as scrap metal, dog food or coffee.
  — Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2021
• Pilots for the airfreight companies contracted by Amazon to fly its Prime Air fleet clamored for better pay and working conditions from their employers.
  — Kara Carlson, The Seattle Times, 23 May 2017
• After two years of expansion, airfreight traffic was flat over the first three months of the year, according to the International Air Transport Association.
  — Peter S. Goodman, BostonGlobe.com, 16 June 2018

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024