OFFICIALS at California's Sacramento County Airport have been holding talks with representatives of 11 Asian air freight carriers hoping to bring international cargo carriers to the state capital, reports the Sacramento Business Journal.

In revealing this, Fred Davis, aviation economist and management consultant with Sabre Airline Solutions in Irvine, noted that Sacramento has the fastest-growing air cargo market in the state of California, rising to 150,000 tons in 2008 from 20,000 tons in 1990, while the airport's share of the air freight market in northern California has grown from 8.8 per cent in 2004 to 11.1 per cent in 2008.

"People don't think of cargo for Sacramento, and yet you do 11 per cent of total air cargo for northern California and you don't even do international," said Mr Davis.

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