By the Numbers
2024 Supply Chain Risk Trends Analysis
AJOT | January 21, 2025 | Logistics | Supply Chain | By The Numbers | Rethinking the Supply Chain
Each quarter of 2024 surpassed previous records set in 2023, though the margin of increase narrowed as the year progressed. The most dramatic spike occurred in Q1 2024, with 317 more incidents than the same period in 2023, while Q4 2024 showed a more modest increase of 94 incidents, representing an 11.81 percent year-over-year growth.
Cathay Pacific releases traffic figures for December 2024
AJOT | January 21, 2025 | Air Cargo | General | By The Numbers
Cathay Pacific today released its traffic figures for December 2024. In the full year of 2024, the Cathay Group achieved new post-pandemic highs for total passengers and cargo carried. Cathay Pacific and HK Express carried a combined total of more than 28 million passengers, marking an increase of 30.7% year on year. Meanwhile, Cathay Cargo carried a total of 1.5 million tonnes of cargo in 2024, which was 11% higher than the whole of 2023.
FTR Reports U.S. trailer net orders in December at 25,334 units, the most since October 2023
AJOT | January 17, 2025 | Trucking | By The Numbers
Total trailer production declined 10% m/m in December to 11,827 units, a relatively typical seasonal drop. However, production was down 40% y/y – 43% below the five-year December average – and was at the lowest monthly output since 2010. Total trailer production in 2024 was down 29% y/y to 223,375 units.
2024 marks record air cargo year for Vienna Airport
AJOT | January 17, 2025 | Air Cargo | General | By The Numbers
Vienna Airport ended the year 2024 with new record figures for air cargo volumes: A total of 297,945 tons of cargo were handled, which represents a significant increase of 22% compared to the previous year and plus 5% compared to the pre-crisis year 2019. In particular, the positive development of long-haul services boosted the cargo results at the airport, as there was strong demand for the additional belly capacities in passenger aircrafts. With a total of 4,238 tons in 2024, the airport also achieved a new all-time high in pharma handling (up 15.3 %).
WorldACD Weekly Air Cargo Trends (week 2) - 2025
AJOT | January 17, 2025 | Air Cargo | General | By The Numbers
Global air cargo spot prices remain more than +20% up on their levels a year ago, despite their usual seasonal drop in early January, according to the latest figures and analysis by WorldACD Market Data. Relatively high rates from the Asia Pacific and the Middle East & South Asia (MESA) origins continued to prop up average prices in the second week of 2025 (week 2, from 6 to 12 January).
WorldACD Weekly Air Cargo Trends (week 1)
AJOT | January 14, 2025 | Air Cargo | General | By The Numbers
Worldwide air cargo finished the year at its lowest year-on-year full-month growth, with global tonnages in December around +6% higher than in the final month of 2023, although they were already at relatively high levels back then.
BTS to will begin releasing preliminary estimates of airline passenger travel in 2025
AJOT | January 03, 2025 | Air Cargo | General | By The Numbers
Monthly passenger enplanement numbers are not reported by the carriers and published by BTS for the month until more than a month later. BTS developed a model, which uses a strong statistical relationship between enplanements and Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checkpoint screening to estimate enplanements on the day after the month has ended when screenings are reported.
WorldACD Weekly Air Cargo Trends (week 50) - 2024
AJOT | December 23, 2024 | Air Cargo | General | By The Numbers
Tonnages and rates begin dropping after strong Q4 peak
DAT: November truckload volumes lagged robust October
AJOT | December 20, 2024 | Trucking | By The Numbers
After gaining momentum throughout the year, last month’s spot truckload freight volumes retreated to their lowest point since January, said DAT Freight & Analytics, which operates the DAT One freight marketplace and DAT iQ data analytics service.
13.1% November increase for inbound boxes as volume gain strengthens
AJOT | December 20, 2024 | Ports & Terminals | Ports | By The Numbers
The ten largest US ports showed a 13.1% year over year gain in inbound volume in November. That was well above October's 9.7% gain and slightly above the 12.2% increase in September. The November growth marks fourteen straight months of increases in inbound volume.
WorldACD Weekly Air Cargo Trends (week 49) - 2024
AJOT | December 16, 2024 | Air Cargo | General | By The Numbers
Global air cargo average spot rates rose by a further +4% in the first full week of December to a 2024 high of US$3.30 per kilo, driven by a +8% surge from Asia Pacific origins, as the sector’s strong but relatively stable fourth-quarter (Q4) peak season approaches its zenith.
September 2024 U.S. airline traffic data Up 1.6% from the same month last year
AJOT | December 12, 2024 | Air Cargo | General | By The Numbers
U.S. airlines carried 77.5 million systemwide (domestic and international) scheduled service passengers in September 2024, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS). When adjusted for seasonality, September enplanements are down 0.4% from August and down 1.7% from the all-time high reached in June 2024.
Key trends in global aviation for 2025
AJOT | December 12, 2024 | Air Cargo | General | By The Numbers
IBA expects that the aviation industry will face a balancing act in 2025 as it navigates a complex global landscape shaped by modest economic growth, easing production bottlenecks, and rising operational costs. Global GDP is projected to grow at 3-3.2%, with advanced economies at 1.8% and emerging markets like India and China leading at 6.5% and 4.5%, respectively.
Fraport Traffic Figures – November 2024: Frankfurt Airport reports modest passenger growth
AJOT | December 12, 2024 | Air Cargo | General | By The Numbers
Cargo throughput in Frankfurt grew by 2.4 percent year-on-year to 178,355 metric tons in the month under review. In contrast, the number of aircraft movements decreased by 1.4 percent to 34,828 takeoffs and landings. Total maximum takeoff weights (or MTOWs) dropped by 0.6 percent to approximately 2.2 million metric tons.
AAR reports rail traffic for the week ending December 7, 2024
AJOT | December 11, 2024 | Intermodal | Rail | By The Numbers
Total carloads for the week ending December 7 were 224,899 carloads, down 1.8 percent compared with the same week in 2023, while U.S. weekly intermodal volume was 295,995 containers and trailers, up 9.7 percent compared to 2023.
October 2024 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI) Up 0.2% from the Previous Month
AJOT | December 11, 2024 | Trucking | By The Numbers
The Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI), which is based on the amount of freight carried by the for-hire transportation industry, rose 0.2% in October from September, rising after a one-month decline, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS). From October 2023 to October 2024, the index rose 0.7% (Tables 1, 2, and 2A).
Port of Galveston releases new economic impact stats
AJOT | December 11, 2024 | Ports & Terminals | Ports | By The Numbers
Cargo a Big Jobs GeneratorThe statewide economic value of cargo operations at public and private marine terminals on Galveston Harbor totaled $6.5 billion in 2023. These operations generated 19,000 Texas jobs, $1.6 billion in personal income, $5.5 billion in business revenue and output, $210 million in local purchases, and $123 million in state and local taxes.
Landstar announces special dividend
AJOT | December 11, 2024 | International Trade | By The Numbers
Landstar System, Inc. (NASDAQ-LSTR), a technology-enabled, asset-light provider of integrated transportation management solutions delivering safe, specialized transportation logistics services, announced that on December 9, 2024, its Boar
WorldACD Weekly Air Cargo Trends (week 48) - 2024
AJOT | December 09, 2024 | Air Cargo | General | By The Numbers
Rates rise to a 2024 high in November, despite dip in tonnages...
Shell plc third quarter 2024 euro and GBP equivalent dividend payments
AJOT | December 09, 2024 | International Trade | By The Numbers
Shareholders have been able to elect to receive their dividends in US dollars, euros or pounds sterling. Holders of ordinary shares who have validly submitted US dollars, euros or pounds sterling currency elections by November 29, 2024 will be entitled to a dividend of US$0.344, €0.3262 or 27.03p per ordinary share, respectively.
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