With the problems that have arisen in logistics shipments for the transport of materials, one of the favored market niches has been that of cargo planes. In recent months, requests for air cargo shipments have skyrocketed.
And logically prices have also skyrocketed, sending 1 kg of material can cost about $15, and logically the most urgent, most expensive and lightest materials are sent by plane. Health products, personal perfumery, high technology, etc…. but hundreds of tons are put into the air every day.
And since passenger trips have also decreased a lot, on many occasions the planes fly almost without passengers and instead with the holds full of cargo. Shipping materials by plane is expensive and is more expensive now than ever and even so it’s when more materials are shipped. Paradoxes of life.
The scarcity of electronic chips in the market has also accelerated these air shipments, as they are very expensive materials and of very little weight, that is, they are ideal for sending them by plane to all the manufacturers in the world, both for cars, computers, and any type of product.
To give us an idea of this business, air transport accounts for around 1% of the weight that is transported, but in economic value it represents around 30% of the total. The most expensive things go by plane and it is not a negligible business at all.
In recent times, the people of Airbus have come to use their 5 Beluga aircraft specialized in loading aeronautical material to carry out other types of air transport and thus obtain additional income.
And also Airbus has accelerated the manufacture of the "Freighter" model for its new A350 aircraft (it is the A350F model), which is capable of carrying as much cargo as a Boeing 747 but with 40% less fuel consumption.
And all this helps the aeronautical industry that has almost come out of the Covid-19 pothole, but we cannot forget the PROBLEM of the pollution generated by airplanes. Because non fossil fuels are still a long way off and we don't know for sure what impact they will have.
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