Airline officials and logistics service providers expect freighters to remain in demand, as passenger-to-freighter conversions (P2F) are also expected to continue flying cargo due to persisting capacity constraints in the market. Singapore’s Scoot has converted an Airbus A320 to a rare narrowbody ‘preighter.’

Industry players are expression concern over the drive of Maersk and CMA CGM to turn themselves into behemoths that can offer multimodal logistics solutions to shippers.