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Despite being hit hard by the global economic recession of 2008/09 and a slow start to the traditional Asian end-of-year peak season for exports of consumer electronic products, high-tech traffic remains a key business sector for the worldwide air cargo/air express industry. Phillip Hastings reports


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ir transportation is a vital option for high- tech product manufacturers seeking to meet customer demands in ever faster-moving markets. In the words of one senior airline cargo industry executive involved with that


market: “The air cargo industry needs high-tech products – and the high-tech industry needs air transportation.”


12 AIR LOGISTICSCHINA In fact, on routes out of China and the wider Asia Pacific


region to North America and Europe, some leading international airlines report that such commodities account for at least half of their total air cargo business. High-tech traffic is also growing strongly on routes out of Asia to developing markets such as South America and Africa, as well as intra-Asia.


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