Boeing Cargo-Jet Sales Head to Post-2009 Low

Boeing Co., the world’s largest maker of air freighters, is headed toward its fewest cargo-jet orders since the 2009 recession as demand wanes for the overnight shipments that once drove purchases.

With 13 sales through July, Boeing’s tally was just one-fifth the total of six years earlier. Airbus SAS, which didn’t begin shipping A330 freighters until 2010, has no orders this year, and the market for secondhand passenger aircraft being converted to fly cargo has dried up.