Sentence examples for the airfreight from inspiring English sources

Much of the airfreight of metropolitan Detroit is handled at the Willow Run Airport, a facility constructed as a bomber plant during World War II.

The Justice Department could help this process along by allowing passenger carriers to take a page from the airfreight industry, which was also deregulated in 1978, by approving the merger of USAirways and American Airlines and therefore letting passenger airlines here compete successfully in the capital markets.

Smaller airfreight forwarders may come to the airfreight business with a somewhat different mix.

The Airfreight segment includes KN Express, KN Expert, KN Extend, KN Extreme Fresh, KN PharmaChain, and special transport services such as charter services and sea-air traffic.

These efforts have taken the form of subsidies to the airfreight costs of fresh foods, along with educational activities to nurture a greater public awareness of food preparation and healthy eating practices.

The global airfreight business is returning to the growth that sustained the industry before the bottom fell out during the dot-com bubble of 2000 and the impact of Sept. 11, 2001.

The struggle is especially fierce along the waterfront, where a shadowy Mr. Big oversees the extraction of tribute, sometimes brutally, from everyone who wants to work on or move goods across the docks at a time, before the advent of airfreight, when the port was the main gateway to the city.

Last week, Frederick W. Smith, the chief executive of FedEx, the global airfreight titan, warned of more trouble to come, saying that China's faltering exports pointed to a weakening global economy in the coming year.

While many American politicians have pushed for physical inspection of every parcel and pallet that enters an aircraft cargo hold — just as security screenings are required for all passengers — the global airfreight industry has argued that such an approach risks paralyzing a business that represents some 40 percent of the value of global trade.

The first airfreight of supplies, which arrived in Thandwe on July 10, contained one Essential Drug Kit A, one Essential Drug Kit B, 1,000 packets of oral rehydration salts, 36,000 water purification tablets, and 500 emergency hygiene posters.

Air transport has taken most of the long-distance passenger traffic from the trains, and airfreight has cut into truck-freighting trade.