What Makes Air Freight Shipping Efficient And Reliable

By Peter Anderson


As the world has become a global village, the need for international commerce has increased exponentially. This has further created the need to get goods across continents in a safe and timely fashion. Air freight shipping has become the shipping of choice simply because it offers reliability and efficiency for business people to transport their goods from one corner of the globe to the other with deliveries made within a short period of time of 3 to 5 days.

There are many stakeholders in the air freight industry. These personnel work in tandem to ensure the smooth operation of this industry. Cargo airlines, logisticians, clearing and forwarding agents etc. Are stakeholders that make up the vast air cargo industry. These stakeholders are interdependent on one another for seamless operations. As a result of this interconnectedness, there can be disruptions and delays when a stakeholder doesn't deliver on his part of the deal.

To avoid disruptions and delays, services are consolidated amongst the various stakeholders in the industry ranging from the shipper and the originating ground personnel to the clearing agents, the airline and the consignee. Hence, the air freight industry has various reforms and regulations put in place to ensure its seamless operation. Couple that with the fact that there are more places reachable by air; air delivery is increasing day by day.

With this, people now ship various consignments by air such as medicine, dry goods, animals and machines around the world. This has led to a boom in the global economy.

Air freighting services are now available for very large consignments. Even people-ferrying airlines now offer freighting services as opposed to dedicated cargo freighters. Weight and volume are the major considerations in estimating the costs involved.

Many delivery companies measure both the volumetric and actual weight of the consignment and cost calculations are derived with whichever is the higher weight between the two. Air freight companies provide additional services that may include chartering of aircraft for personal use, goods consolidation, dedicated customer support etc. This makes air shipping services more appealing to exporters and importers as it ensures that their goods will arrive safely and in time.

Tracking air shipments is relatively simpler when compared to other delivery options. Clients can access updates on their consignments as they happen. Because of this, customers feel more confident shipping highly valuable materials ranging from research materials to high priced pharmaceuticals and electronics. This reliability is exclusive to air delivery services and as such has helped to solve some problems associated with global business.

Customers have different criteria they can use when looking for air cargo companies to patronize which include package consolidation, time of delivery and handling efficiency. With more companies offering quick delivery and pickup of consignments, more customers are using these companies for business.

The advantages of air freight services far outweigh the disadvantage of a high cost as more customers ignore that for the reliability, speed and safety that air freight services can provide. This has subsequently contributed to the general growth of the global economy especially in the areas of wealth and job creation for various people around the world.




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