Global freight handling growth suffered a marked slowdown in March. Airfreight increased by just 2%, the slowest since May 2016, due to a growth of just 1% from Asian and European airlines. Capacity discipline slipped, with available volumes up 4%. Competition for new business from the airlines may help the freight forwarders that are seeing declining profitability. Seaports saw a similar effect, with volumes handled by ports in nine countries tracked by Panjiva climbing just 2% vs. February’s 10% rate. That made for the slowest rate of development since July 2016. Growth of 1% at Chi...