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The Top 50 Cargo Airlines FedEx and Lufthansa Cargo remained the worlds largest freight airlines last year but the list of the worlds top 50 cargo carriers suggests an airline industry in the midst of a deep restructuring even as air operators seek stability. The changes were evident as the cargo-rich got richer, with seven of the top 10 airlines growing by double digits in 2002 and those carriers commanding some 52 percent of the market reported in the 2003 edition of the International Air Transport Associations World Air Transport Statistics. Deeper into the list, carriers from fast-growing parts of the world are climbing up the ladder, however. Chinas three main carriers expanded their freight traffic a combined 17.6 percent last year and fully half of the worlds top 25 air cargo carriers were based in the Asia-Pacific region. After small Austrian Airlines (No. 48), which leaped 57 percent in its cargo traffic last year, only FedEx at 20.2 percent intruded on a list of airlines from Asia and the Middle East that grew at better than 20 percent over 2001. The expansion in the Far East marked the realization of forecasts that have projected Asia-based air trade, particularly intra-Asia business, as leading the world. Dubai-based Emirates, which has expanded its cargo business two-and-a-half times in just five years, grew by nearly a third last year. China Southern Airlines and Hong Kongs Dragonair, based a little more than 100 miles apart in Southern China, expanded 28.6 percent and 26.9 percent, respectively. China Southern has been the fastest-growing airline in the world in the last five years, tripling its business in the time and growing at a rate of better than 40 percent a year. With its nearly 13 billion freight tonne-kilometers and better than 10 percent market share among the top 50 airlines, FedEx was the worlds leader in cargo traffic by a large margin over No. 2 Lufthansa. But a huge share of the traffic at FedEx and No. 4 United Parcel Service was b