Role of air cargo in air industry

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.