NEW airlines and more wide-body planes helped direct exports from South Australia’s agriculture and fisheries industries to increase by 50 per cent during the past two years.
The first Boeing 787 Dreamliner wide-body service to Auckland saw freight capacity grow from virtually zero to up to 25 tonnes each flight.
This has initiated a leap in the state’s export potential. New airlines, including Emirates, Qatar and China Southern, and the recent arrival of wide-body aircraft was a game changer, with “up to 60 per cent of our exports” now carried direct from Adelaide.