Carrier has to starve

Rules igry04-02-2009 Carrier has a hunger strike since the crisis began declining volume of cargo every day. Experts around the world associate this fall with the decline of manufacturing and overall economic instability. Judging by the forecasts for the year 2009, cargo carriers for a long time will have to "starve". Volumes of air cargo fell in December 2008, almost a quarter (22,6%), which is "shocking and unprecedented results," according to a press release from the International Air Transport Association (IATA). "This is the clearest example of a downturn in world trade" - so described the December reduction freight chapter IATA Giovanni Bisignani. The share of air transport accounts for 35% of international trade in value terms. In connection with the crisis of declining consumption of goods and the volume of orders, and state authorities are trying to support their producers and reduce imports, which is due to inflation, more and more expensive. "It looks like 2009 will be one of the toughest in the history of international aviation. Reduction in freight traffic by 22.6% in December, has thrown us into the unknown distance, and the bottom of the fall has not yet seen. Fasten your seat belts and prepare for turbulence and hard landing "- grimly joked Bisignani.