Airports
Strategic Location and Experience Spur Sea-Air in Dubai
Tracking the growth of sea-air through Dubai may have become more difficult over time due to the problems with obtaining comprehensive data.
Issa Baluch launched Dubai's first sea-air products in the late 1970s.
Issa Baluch launched Dubai's first sea-air products in the late 1970s.

With air freight accounting for about 1 percent of the total volume of global freight but over a third by value and seaborne freight accounting for over 90 percent by volume and taking weeks instead of hours in transit, the viability of sea-air cargo—moving goods using a combination of the two—might seem counterintuitive. As an old sage who formerly resided in the Middle East once put it: “The idea of sea-air is like Father Christmas, as far as I’m concerned; freight transport is either slow and cheap or fast and expensive!”


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