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Japanese freight forwarders handled 912,367 tons of consolidated airfreight in 2012, according to a report compiled by the Japan Air Freight Association (JAFA).
Decreasing 9.1% year on year, the total failed to reach one million tons for the first time in three years, or since 2009, the first calendar year after the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.
Looking at consolidated exports by destination, those to the TC1 regions declined 7.9% to 188,705 tons. Shipments to the Midwest of the U.S. improved 6%, but those to the others all suffered negative growth.
Exports to the TC2 regions all suffered double-digit decreases due to the prolonged sovereign-debt crisis, plunging 24.1% to 157,277 tons in total.
Air cargoes to the TC3 regions went down 4.3% to 567,586 tons. Those to Malaysia swelled 22.3%; to South Korea, 11.4%; and to China, 4.1%, but those to the other regions declined across the board.
Meanwhile, Japanese forwarders imported 2,629,888 air cargoes last year, improving a slight 1.3% from a year earlier. On a tonnage scale, however, they fell 3% to 1,028,128 tons.
