LATAM Cargo’s Santiago-Chicago perishable service to begin from Feb 19Jan 11, 2019: LATAM Cargo will start twice weekly flights between Santiago and Chicago, returning via Miami from February 19. “Having access to Chicago gives us a number of benefits,” said Kamal Hadad, director of LATAM Cargo Network. In early December, LATAM launched a weekly freighter flight from Bogota to Huntsville to feed perishables exports into Panalpina’s network. While exports from Latin America to Asia are on a high, traffic in the opposite direction has been hampered by economic headwinds and downward pressure on currencies in Latin America, especially Brazil. Moreover, while Latin America’s largest economy remains the primary market for Asian exports, perishables exporters in Latin America are primarily concentrated on the west coast.

Source: The North Africa Journal January 11, 2019 12:33 UTC