Miami moves at the future’s pace

TIACA’s Air Cargo Forum 2026 (ACF) landed in Miami Beach under the banner “The Future Won’t Wait”, and the week certainly lived up to it. This was a business-first show: delegates came to meet, sign and compare notes, and the exhibition floor ran on back-to-back-to-back appointments. The tone was focused and upbeat.

Before the show, TIACA stated its goal was to ensure that the entire airfreight supply chain was represented among its expected It is expected 4,000 visitors alongside the over 250 exhibitors taking part. ACF certainly lived up to this goal – the Miami Beach Convention Centre was bustling.

“You can actually feel the energy,” Glyn Hughes, Director General of the International Air Cargo Association (TIACA), told Air Cargo Week. “Even though the world is much more complex now than it’s been in past years, there’s no doom and gloom.” The industry, he said, “has probably built the resilience over the last few years that it can adapt and respond in strong, quick measures to whatever happens”.

The agenda had set out the preoccupations before anyone took the stage: capacity and network resilience after a disrupted year; trade policy and the lanes it’s redrawing; and AI, which appeared in session titles throughout the convention.

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