Air transportation
Air freight — choice of those who value time
Among the most ambitious types of cargo transportation air freight is the most perspective because today this is the fastest way of overcoming distances.
In what cases the international air freight can be necessary?
- When the cargo must be delivered urgently. It is not a secret that out of economic considerations large companies divide production in such a way that every process is performed in the place where its cost will be minimal. Air freight can keep the intensity of the production process by in-time delivery of the cargo to any country.
- When it is required to transport the cargo of high value. Less time in transit means less risk of its damage. In addition, air freight is the subject to special safety requirements. Relics, works of art which it is necessary to urgently transport to customer / buyer on the other continent — in such cases, of course, the high cost of such service is justified.
- When it is necessary to make an urgent delivery of cargo to inaccessible place. It is not a secret that there are many inhabited places on the planet which are in fact isolated from the rest of the world because of the specific geographic position. Delivery of equipment, medicines, food products to such places may be required. Production facilities and research stations located in the inaccessible places of the planet also may require the delivery by air transport.
- When it is necessary to take the above-limit luggage which exceeds the volume/weight established by the passenger air carrier.
Our company performs air freight of bulky and oversized cargoes. It is obvious that the cost of air freight depends directly on the cargo specifics: physical characteristics, application and safety level.
So called special cargoes require from our clients to present a pack of documents (to be accorded with the company specialist in every particular case), and from us a special mode of transportation will be required.
Special cargoes include:
- Heavy cargo (mass of the item exceeds 80 kg).
- Bulky cargo. It is a cargo with dimensions exceeding 0,5х0,5х0,8 meter.
- Perishable cargo. As a rule, these are food products of vegetable and animal origin.
- Animals/livestock.
- Correspondence, cargo of extrinsic value, works of art.
- Dangerous cargo.
Rules of transportation of air cargo are strictly regulated by international and Russian legislation and therefore a more thorough control of all stages of this service is necessary, starting from accordance of the delivery with the client till passing customs control on arrival to another country.
Why you should use our company when ordering air freight service?
- During many years of air freight we have managed to elaborate algorithms of processes for all cargoes: paperwork, special packing, fixation, insurance of cargo. Due to this the period between request from our company and receipt of cargo is all-time minimal.
- Delivery of cargoes by air transport of our company is distinguished by high reliability, thanks to this the theft and damage of cargo is excluded.
- We use developed means for cargo monitoring that allows us tracking cargo condition at any stage of delivery process.
We do not keep quiet the drawbacks in air freight.
- First of all, this is a relatively high cost of this service. If to speak about the influence of distance on cost, then air freight from America to Moscow will be the most expensive.
- It should be mentioned that for usage of this service the haulage is obligatory.
- Dependence from weather conditions.
However, all the above-mentioned in no way effects popularity of international air freight because the rate is almost always justified by the value of cargo and terms of its delivery.
Please, call us and fill in the application form on our web-site right now so that to learn the cost and conditions of air freight for your cargo as soon as possible. Calculation of air freight cost takes 2 hours at most if you contact us by phone.
Interesting to know!
Today it is impossible to imagine prosperous business without aircraft. Large corporations have already outgrown country borders where they have been created, everywhere there is international cooperation. Frequently, at realisation of any large-scale projects, the part of necessary components is made in one corner of the world, another part - in another, and their assemblage - in the third one. What shall we do to realise the project in such conditions? Correctly, take advantage of the international air transportation. International air cargoes transportation brings the distance between countries to nothing, after all delivery time is a couple of hours. If urgent international cargoes transportation is in question, then it is a question of air cargoes transportation. The lost days at transportation of critically necessary equipment, documents, perishable food can be of serious loss for companies in the future. That is why international air transportations are so much popular and important in modern business.
Air transportation is likely to be the youngest, the most expensive and the fastest type of transportation. It is used, for example, by all delivery companies without exception to deliver important, urgent documents and correspondence to almost any place of the world.
The choice of air transportations is dictated by reasons of urgency of cargo delivery, and it means its importance and cost. Cargo cost in general is a criterion a good logistician cannot neglect. Cheap goods are unprofitable for extremely expensive transportation at large distances. Such goods in a destination point will appear to be noncompetitive because of their high cost price. So, time for calculations of its delivery is lost for nothing. A good logistician cannot afford such a luxury!
Thus, air freighting is a method of transportation of the most urgent and expensive cargoes, or transportation of urgent cargoes into hard-to-reach places where other types of transport are simply not capable to deliver them.
Other important criterion of cargo is its physical characteristics. They are dimensions, weight, volume, special storage conditions, transportation or transfer. It is obvious that cubic capacity of a cargo compartment is limited in a plane. Thus, air transportations are very sensitive to dimensions, volume and weight of cargo. At forecasting the cost of such transportation cargoes are estimated by kg. However, any rule has exceptions. For example, military equipment or large-sized mechanisms intended for hard-to-reach places. For such unusual cases there are handsome air heavy-duties, such as our "IL" or «Ruslan – АN124».
Air transportations of cargoes differ completely from passenger air transportations by rules and norms, and other nuances. Do not try to remember them, simply shift your problems of air transportation to the transport company TransVip. Our managers can select the suitable tariff of air transportations for both, the large companies and private persons, proceeding from cargo’s volume, range of flight, weight, the legislation of foreign countries.
If air transportations across Russia and Europe economize time, transatlantic air transportations are simply the necessity. When using sea transportations, you can spend from 1 till 5 months for delivery of products from one country to another. When using air transportations - from 2 till 10 hours. Essential difference in time, isn’t it? The price difference is much less.
Company T&V understands all seriousness and appreciates your time, therefore we are doing everything for the international air transportation of cargoes to be carried out as quick as possible and with minimum time and financial expenditures, and for customs bodies to process your cargo in acceptable terms.
The largest cargo plane in the world is AN-124 or Ruslan. So, what have we learnt about air transportations? They are the quickest on delivery terms, but also the most expensive. It would be quite expensive to transport large-sized or heavy cargoes by air. Usual cargoes for air transportation are documents, correspondence, small, but expensive goods, perishable goods or goods demanding urgent delivery.
Each airport has customs warehouses where cargoes automatically get after their delivery and unloading. Customs brokers in these warehouses will provide correct registration of cargoes by addressee in customs sense. After registration of customs procedures and formalities, payment of corresponding taxes, cargo is given to a consignee, specified in goods documents.
In air transportations the so-called AirWayBill - aviation way bill of the international sample is used as consignment (the document identifying transport operation and containing the information about consignee).
Air delivery of out-of-gauge cargoes
Presence of allowing documents, realisation of special rules of specific cargoes transportation, presence of especially competent and skilled experts in the companies – is just a small list of basic requirements to the organisations specialising on air deliveries of out-of-gauge cargoes. Currently the process with such a name is considered one of most cost-based and labour-consuming. Therefore out-of-gauge cargoes air transportation is carried out only by professional companies of international air transportations market.
To begin with let’s note what the term out-of-gauge cargoes air transportation means. Air transportation of such orders assumes transportation of: immovable constructions, special equipment, large tractors, oil equipment, various industrial equipment and machines, pipes and other large-sized things. Out-of-gauge cargoes air transportation requires the considerable quantity of knowledge and experience from the transport company, besides, it is extremely desirable to have close connections with various organisations which could provide cargo support if necessary, in particular it wouldn’t be excessive to have experience in successful gaining of necessary documents in STSI and other state organisations.
Air transportations of out-of-gauge cargoes requires the observance of traffic rules of Russian Federation and various specifications of the Ministry of Emergency Measures - after all it is necessary to deliver out-of-gauge cargoes to the airport, and delivery is often carried out on roads of inhabited city sectors. During transportation of such cargoes it is necessary to remember that sometimes you are to indemnify a state the losses carried out by motor transport to road constructions and asphalt covering of roads. Undoubtedly, such transportations are impossible to perform without special documents and permissions from state structures. Proceeding from type of cargo and some other parameters, the permission for a single road transportation of cargo or the permission of a certain limited term which cannot exceed three months is being issued.
For international out-of-gauge cargoes air transportations different types of platforms are suitable. Today there exist a great variety of them. They are optimum for the majority of out-of-gauge cargoes (for example the large-sized building equipment, industrial equipment, etc.): platforms-trailers, open platforms and also the special transport equipped with necessary machines for loading, transportation and unloading of cargoes. At present planes IL-76 and its modifications, particularly IL-76TD possessing a considerable range of flight and load of 46-50 tons are used for air delivery of cargoes. Also a transport plane AN-124 "Ruslan" is used for air transportations. This machine is ideal for transportation of out-of-gauge cargoes by air. Because it is possible to place motor transport in 2 rows in its compartments, which means that inside the plane it is possible to place even the largest and the heaviest cargoes.
So it is obvious that out-of-gauge cargoes air delivery is a difficult and laborious process at the realisation of which a customer almost completely depends on the company of transportation, from its professionalism and experience. Procedure of cargo air transportation execution begins with scheduling which is performed by professionals of the companies.