Introduction...
A high value industry, air cargo is
critical for serving markets that demand speed and reliability of the transport
of goods. Air cargo will remain a preferred solution for transporting higher
value goods that are time sensitive and economically perishable.
Use of air cargo...
The use of air transport method of import
and export goods, need to go for certain procedures such as, export of goods at
the originating airport to the airline before the sale of goods, receiving,
booking, billing, customers declaration and delivery etc. Important goods are picked
up, received, customs, delivered or transshipped from the airline at the
destination airport.
Types...
Air cargo is divided into two types through
air freight forwarding companies, or directly from the receiving and shipping
companies to the airline. Air freight companies are able to generate and rapidly
develop because their services bring convenience and benefits to both shipper
and airlines.
Transportation links...
Air freight forwarding companies are
familiar with the transportation link-sand relevant rules and regulations, and
have extensive and close contact with civil aviation, customs, commodity
inspection and transportation departments, and have the relevant for handling
transportation procedures. Secondly,Role of air cargo is an important business of air freight forwarding
companies is the agent “central consignment” that is, the group of separately
shipped goods are combined into a whole batch of goods, which are shipped to
the same destination airport by the same general will be. The agent is
responsible for receiving the goods and distributing them to the actual
consignee after customs declaration. Third is as far as airlines are concerned,
it can also from the benefit of services of the agency.
GSA...
In the air freight forwarding, there is a special
type called GSA. GSA is an abbreviation of general sales agent, which means
sales agent, which refers to the general agent which sells all the cabins of an
airline agent in a certain city or region. GSA is different form general sales
agent.