Intra-Asia Freight Forwarding Market Size (2024 - 2029)

Intra-Asia Freight Forwarding Market Analysis

Over the next few years, the intra-Asia freight forwarding market is expected to register a CAGR of more than 5%.

• The COVID-19 pandemic led to global lockdowns, and commercial activities were halted, challenging the economy and disrupting the freight forwarding market with massive changes in operations, supply chains, regulations, and workforce requirements. Air and ocean freight volumes fell significantly in 2020; total ocean freight container volumes handled at Chinese ports dropped by 10.1% in the first few months of 2020. Later, as restrictions eased, cargo movement increased significantly across the region.
• Countries are also working on joint projects to boost cross-border trade. For example, in January 2023, the Indian Ministry of Road Transportation and Highways and the Japanese Delegation met to work on projects for digital transformation in the areas of intelligent transportation systems and eco-friendly mobility.The committee also planned to build roads between India and Japan so that people and goods could move more easily.
• In the meantime, Swissport, an aviation company, opened a new air cargo center at Central Japan International Airport in October 2022 to meet the growing demand for freight transport.
• Asia, on the other hand, is becoming a global logistics hub right now, and it is expected that the region will be responsible for about half of the world's trade growth by 2030. Also, more start-ups, mergers, and acquisitions brought more than USD 25 billion to Asia in the first quarter of 2021. So, the region's freight forwarders can expect a lot of business from the growing number of projects and trade activities.

Intra-Asia Freight Forwarding Industry Segmentation

Freight forwarders are an important part of the supply chain. They act as middlemen between the company that ships the goods and the place where the goods will end up.It is the coordination and shipment of goods from one place to another via single or multiple carriers via air, marine, rail, or highway. The report provides a complete background analysis of the global freight forwarding market, which includes an assessment of the economy, a market overview, market size estimations for key segments, emerging trends in the market, market dynamics, and key company profiles. The report also covers the impact of COVID-19 on the market.

The Intra-Asia Freight Forwarding Market is segmented by mode of transport (air freight forwarding, ocean freight forwarding, road freight forwarding, and rail freight forwarding), by customer type (business-to-business (B2B)), by application (industrial and manufacturing, retail, healthcare, oil and gas, food and beverage, and other applications), and by geography (China, Japan, South Korea, India, and the Rest of Asia). The Intra-Asia Freight Forwarding Market report offers market size and forecast values (in USD billion) for all the above segments.