E-commerce and online shopping are driving the company’s volumes on trans-Pacific routes. In January 2021, it will complete its first year of freighter operations to Campinas, Brazil; Santiago; and Bogotá. Qatar Airways also offers belly capacity on its passenger flights to and from Sao Paulo.

E-commerce, which was growing at double-digit rates prior to the pandemic, has accelerated its impact on the air cargo market as more businesses shifted to online selling platforms, a Boeing spokesperson says, making dedicated freighters critical for air freight carriers.

Breakbulk and project heavy lift carrier AAL Shipping delivered a cable carousel measuring 23 metres in diameter (73-metre circumference) to the Formosa 2 offshore wind farm project. The cargo was loaded in Jebel Ali and transported on deck of the 19,000 dwt heavy lift multipurpose vessel AAL Nanjing to the project marshalling port Taichung, Taiwan.

UPS and FedEx delivered the first U.S. doses of Pfizer and BioNTech’s coronavirus on December 14.