Nowadays, air freight has become an important component of the modern logistics industry. Due to its safety, convenience, and speed, even if it did not develop for a long time, it quickly won a considerable market. So do you know what types of air freight are available? What are the characteristics of various transportation methods?
Generally speaking, the transportation methods of air freight forwarders mainly include flight transportation, centralized consignment, charter transportation, container transportation, and air express transportation, with different transportation methods having their own characteristics.
1. A flight refers to an aircraft that regularly departs, routes, departs, passes through, and destinations. Its main characteristic is that it can accurately grasp the time of departure and arrival.
2. Centralized shipping method refers to the method in which air freight forwarders combine several batches of scattered goods separately shipped into a single batch and collectively ship them to the airline. Fill out a master waybill and send it to the same destination station, and then the air freight forwarding company entrusts a local agent to receive and distribute the goods to the actual consignee. The main feature of this method is that it can achieve lower freight rates than sporadic shipments and reduce the hassle of shippers handling their own shipments.
3. Charter flight transportation refers to the leasing of the entire aircraft or a portion of the cabin to the charterer (cabin) based on conditions and rates agreed upon in advance by the airline or charter agent, and the transportation from one or several air stations to the designated destination. Generally speaking, the shipping cost of charter flights (cabins) is lower than that of regular flights, but the scope of activities is relatively small.
The use of container transportation in air transportation is the trend. However, due to the special shape of the aircraft cabin, in addition to standard containers that can be used in large aircraft cargo compartments, non-standard containers with different sizes, volumes, and shapes are generally used. The main purpose of using container transportation is to improve transportation efficiency, save packaging, and facilitate turnover.
5. This method of air express transportation is particularly suitable for the fast transportation of small items such as urgently needed items, medical equipment, valuable items, drawings, key components, samples, documents, etc., adapting to the fast-paced needs of modern society.
