Victoria City, April 23 -- Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) retained its position as the world's busiest cargo airport last year, while US hubs suffered their biggest declines among the world's top air freight hubs.

Airports Council International (ACI) reports HKIA registered a 3.3 per cent year-on-year increase in cargo volumes last year to 4.3 million tonnes.

It is the 13th time since 2010 that HKIA has been the busiest cargo airport in the world, but it remains down on 2019 levels when the airport handled 4.8 million tonnes as passenger operations last year were still in recovery post Covid, noted London's Air Cargo News.

The airport lost the top spot in 2020 due to the Covid pandemic and related drop-off in passenger flying....