Summary: Air Freight Worldwide

The solution allows benchmarking air freight rates.

Geographical Coverage

Our air freight benchmarking solution coverage is available for airports and locations across the globe. You provide to the API your precise GPS coordinates (latitude and longitude) for both pick-up and delivery locations and the associated service type (see below).

Service Type

You can include the pre and post carriage rates in our benchmark if your location is not an airport. The pre and post carriage rates are specifically for road transportation.

CodeDescription
ataAirport to airport
dtaDoor to airport (pre carriage included)
atdAirport to door (post carriage included)
dtdDoor to door (pre and post carriage included)

Service Level

We offer three levels of services:

CodeDescription
standardProvides a balance between speed and cost (most commonly used)
expressFor urgent shipments that require the fastest transit times

Weight

The solution requires your chargeable (taxable) weight as we do not take into account the volume of the cargo.

Cargo Characteristics

Type of industries & controlled temperature

Code IndustryReefer
allFalse
electronicsFalse
luxuryFalse
automotiveFalse
foodTrue
pharmaceuticalTrue/False
high_techFalse

Electronics

The electronic industry includes on electronic items.

High-tech

The high-tech industry heavily relies on air freight for its delicate and high-value products. Air cargo ensures efficient and secure transportation for smartphones, laptops and electronic accessorials.

Luxury

The luxury industry includes high fashion, accessories, jewelry, cosmetics and other luxury goods.

Automotive

The automotive industry relies on air freight for various components and spare parts. With global supply chains and manufacturing processes spread across multiple countries, air cargo offers quick and efficient transportation for urgent components, minimizing production downtime.

Food

The food industry uses air freight to transport perishable goods and high-value food items. Air cargo provides rapid transit times, maintaining the freshness and quality of temperature-sensitive goods.

Pharmaceutical

The pharmaceutical industry heavily relies on air freight to transport temperature-sensitive medications, vaccines and other healthcare products. Air cargo ensures the integrity of sensitive products that require strict temperature control throughout the supply chain.

All industries

All industries combined. Not general cargo.

Hazardous Goods

You can benchmark transport with or without hazardous goods included in the shipment.

Customs

You can benchmark transport with or without customs in your rates.

Dates

The benchmarking process provides prices for specific routes on selected dates, including past dates starting from January 1, 2017 to today.