Colombia, Ecuador and Kenya see high Valentine's Day exports

The worldwide air cargo yield climbed to a level of USD 1.91 in February 2018, 1% above January 2018, and 23.1% higher than in February 2017.

Given the aftermath of Chinese New Year (CNY, Feb 16, 2018), worldwide year-over-year (YoY) volume growth in February (+4.4%) was way below the growth reported for January, resulting in a combined growth for the year's first two months of 6.95% YoY: a good start of the year by any standard (except by the standard of the extraordinary year 2017).

The origins Asia Pacific and Americas grew more than average in these two months (+9.3% and +8.4% YoY respectively). Europe, Central & South America and Africa were the best destinations (+9.5%, +8.5% and +8.4% YoY resp.).

Flowers
Colombia, Ecuador and Kenya - in this order - are the world's flower growing powerhouses, together exporting about 3/4 of the world's airborne flowers. February, the month of Valentine's Day, brought the largest volume increase in flower exports from Ecuador (+11% YoY), followed by Kenya (+9.2%) and Colombia (+7.1%). But the latter realised the largest YoY USD-yield-increase (+14.6%). More than 85% of these exports went to the USA and Western Europe.

Source: WorldACD