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Outlook 2018
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As a result of the boom, OIC-MENA has experienced an about 17-fold increase in its air freight
traffic between 1993 and 2017 whereas OIC-Asia only less than doubled its air freight traffic
during the same period. When the aggregate data is decomposed, it is seen that the boom of air
freight traffic in the OIC-MENA region mostly originated from UAE.
Figure 18: Total air freight carried in the OIC regions (million ton-km) (1993-2017)
Source: Author from the World Bank World Development Indicators, adjusted for missing data
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