ight forwarding industry. One if the continuing expansion of international trade. Another is the fairly significant decline in logistics (due to technology) and transportation costs (due to increasingly lower fuel costs). Still another significant market force causing change but boding well for the air freight forwarding industry is the advent of the Internet and World Wide Web (WWW) which have opened up an international market of goods and consumers with the ability to rapidly contact one another with ease and complete consumer convenience. Eroding trade barriers, international trade agreements and the move for privatization in other countries has also pushed change and offered new challenges and opportunities on an international scope:
According to a study compiled by the U.S. Dept. of Transportation and Volpe National Systems Center, the value of total U.S. exports and imports in 1996 was $1.4 trillion, a 45% growth from 1992 levels. Container loads grew from 3.
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