Air
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.
Code | Description |
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ata | Airport to airport |
dta | Door to airport (pre carriage included) |
atd | Airport to door (post carriage included) |
dtd | Door to door (pre and post carriage included) |
Service Level
We offer three levels of services:
Code | Description |
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standard | Provides a balance between speed and cost (most commonly used) |
express | For 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 Industry | Reefer |
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all | False |
electronics | False |
luxury | False |
automotive | False |
food | True |
pharmaceutical | True/False |
high_tech | False |
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.
Updated 9 months ago