{"id":652882,"date":"2025-11-18T08:20:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T02:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=652882"},"modified":"2025-11-18T08:46:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T03:16:16","slug":"indias-air-cargo-sector-thrives-in-a-world-of-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indias-air-cargo-sector-thrives-in-a-world-of-tariffs\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s air cargo sector thrives in a world of tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai | Kolkata: India&#8217;s air freight sector is riding a surge in premium shipments overseas, led by pharmaceuticals and smartphones, as exporters prioritise reliability and speed over costs in a world where unpredictable tariffs have spawned multiple trade barriers. <\/p>\n<p>Airports Authority of India (AAI) data show international freight traffic rose 4.1%, domestic 5.9%, and total freight 4.8% between April and September in FY26, compared with the previous year. This comes at a time when the World Bank, in June, cut its 2025 global growth forecast to 2.3%, citing &#8220;heightened trade tensions and policy uncertainty.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai | Kolkata: India&#8217;s air freight sector is riding a surge in premium shipments overseas, led by pharmaceuticals and smartphones, as exporters prioritise reliability and speed over costs in a world where unpredictable tariffs have spawned multiple trade barriers. Airports Authority of India (AAI) data show international freight traffic rose 4.1%, domestic 5.9%, and total freight 4.8% between April and September in FY26, compared with the previous year. This comes at a time when the World Bank, in June, cut its 2025 global growth forecast to 2.3%, citing &#8220;heightened trade tensions and policy uncertainty.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}