Air transportation: Air transportation is bound to become an important entity in the global e-commerce trade network and supply chain network in the future. The characteristics of air transportation can be summarized as fast speed, high cost, and high safety. However, this is only a comparison drawn from the logistics channels. Real air transportation will achieve a convenient transportation network in the future, just like our domestic express delivery and takeout.
Let's briefly talk about how air transportation is currently carried out: airlines have two types of loading strategies for cargo, one is the belly compartment, which loads cargo under passenger aircraft; Another type is full cargo hold, where the entire aircraft only holds cargo and does not carry passengers. For international trade, timeliness means the speed of capital turnover, and timeliness means the survival time of products in the market. At present, goods with high timeliness requirements, such as flowers, fish fry, cold chain drugs, fresh food, and documents, can only rely on air freight. Some goods with rush times, high value, and vulnerability also require short timeliness to avoid unpredictable risks.
Why would air freight become the main logistics channel for cross-border commodity transactions? It is not difficult to see from this epidemic that global air transportation is shifting from passenger to freight, and this trend will continue after the end of the epidemic. This is due to the exploration of the air transportation market during the epidemic, which has led to the entire supply chain relying on multimodal transportation instead of direct flights in the past.
