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Business Valuation Increased with Air Freight Transportation

Leah Barrier

Jun 14, 2019
4 min

Business Valuation Increased with Air Freight Transportation

Originally Written by Carol Frachon (2017), Updated by Leah Barrier and Dylan Nguyen (2020) One of the biggest revolutions in the retail and manufacturing industry has been fast shipping. Knowing that a company can provide expedited services is a big plus. Expedited freight can move either over land or in the air. Trucks have long been the backbone of the supply chain, but if time is of the essence, there is none to waste on trucks making multiple delivery stops along ineffic

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How Can an International Air Freight Forwarder Impact Your Business?

Leah Barrier

Mar 29, 2019
4 min

How Can an International Air Freight Forwarder Impact Your Business?

Top freight forwarding companies can utilize their logistical expertise, experience, and network to provide your business with several advantages. Partnering with the right freight forwarder can simplify your operations, reduce your expenses and fees, and overall streamline your supply chain. What is a freight forwarder? A freight forwarder facilitates the delivery of goods on behalf of other companies. Companies partner with forwarders to help get their goods from point A to

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What Air Cargo Forms are you Missing Before you Ship?

Leah Barrier

Dec 28, 2018
3 min

What Air Cargo Forms are you Missing Before you Ship?

CLN's Top 5 Most Critical Air Freight Export Documents Exporting cargo shipped via air freight can come with unwanted complications. Making sure your freight forwarder has extensive knowledge in export documentation is vital for a smooth shipment once your international sale has been secured to your foreign buyer. Exports of physical goods can prove to be risky and expensive if not handled correctly. Consequently, it is imperative the exporter is aware of the documents used t

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eCommerce Continues to Rise & Amazon Continues to Dominate

Leah Barrier

Dec 21, 2018
2 min

eCommerce Continues to Rise & Amazon Continues to Dominate

The Combined Impact on Air Freight The colossal eCommerce middleman, Amazon, sets to dominate another industry model as online activity and sales continue to gain momentum, increasing the upsurge in air freight shipments. What does this mean? Amazon plans to expand their domestic network on cargo flights from Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Airport (CVG) with potential run way space for 100 freighters, to Chicago Rockford International Airport (RFD), Wilmington Air Park in Ohio

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Top 3 Predictions for the Healthcare Supply Chain

Leah Barrier

Dec 7, 2018
2 min

Top 3 Predictions for the Healthcare Supply Chain

2019 Edition. The ecosystem evolution within the supply chain is not only inevitable, but imperative. Conversely, optimization through collaborative efforts focused on industry leaders has recently introduced itself as the primary topic of communication within principal sectors of healthcare. What does this mean for the future? Impending process implementations for starters. Aside from the obvious, the below reflect predictive behaviors to be expected in response to market fa

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Leah Barrier

Nov 16, 2018
2 min

Outgrowing Airports

The current demand in air freight cargo and expedited international shipments are putting a heightened amount of pressure on the existing size and capabilities of airports in their present conditions. Could we be outgrowing physical airport real estate? If so, what could be done to efficiently reduce congestion and seam busting traffic flow, or lack thereof? To accommodate increased fleet demand, major air hubs are having to reinvent the wheel. But in all actuality, they just

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Leah Barrier

Nov 9, 2018
2 min

Air Freight Growing Pains

Anyone directly connected to the freight forwarding and transportation sector can attest to the meticulous and exuberantly definitive guidelines and entities enforcing regulations upon the industry. While technology is working to streamline the process, protocols are working to ensure safety – often at the cost of time efficiency. With the newest ACAS and ELD rules, air cargo is having to work exceptionally harder in adaptation efforts. Electronic logging device (ELD) is a fe

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Leah Barrier

Sep 28, 2018
2 min

Peak Season Predictions

Will Increased Air Freight Demands Put a Strain on Capacity? Closing out the end of a record-setting year in terms of air freight demand, the industry now approaches peak season in anxious anticipation. Experts have continuously proposed that air cargo demand will shift, and a downward trend will emerge. So far, those suggestions have been just that – mere suggestions. Rate reports derived from various carriers and market analysts have been variably scattered and inconsistent

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Filling the Technological Gap in Logistics

Leah Barrier

Sep 21, 2018
2 min

Filling the Technological Gap in Logistics

The urgency to revolutionize the logistics industry overnight is not only unrealistic, but completely void of a linear thought process in regards to freight forwarding. Complete automation is the goal but the steps to get there add up to more than any current system can climb. It is naïve to think that industry wide autonomy is not the future of transportation. It will happen; however, it is unrealistic to assume that it will happen with one single system within the next 12-1

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Automation is Now. Is Your Logistics Provider Properly Equipped?

Leah Barrier

Aug 17, 2018
2 min

Automation is Now. Is Your Logistics Provider Properly Equipped?

In the beginning, there were Telex machines. Today, there is e-commerce. An online industry so revolutionary that it could be coined as the primary factor for the global increase in expedited air cargo shipments and the continuing rise of air freight volume in general. But can the world of air freight keep up with increasing demand and the impending implementation of automation? In short, yes. But only if certain digitalized changes take place across the board – and fast. The

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Leah Barrier

Aug 3, 2018
2 min

Air Freight: Behind the Scenes

What is air freight shipping and how does it work? The first question most people are familiar with, the second is likely much less clear. Partnerships between airlines and knowledgeable freight forwarders can be a powerful duo. Air freight shipping is the transference of goods from one place to another via aircraft. Simply put, it is a mode of transportation that individuals or businesses can choose if expedited shipments are needed. But how does this process work? Air freig

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How to Adapt to the Future of Air Freight Cargo

Leah Barrier

Jul 27, 2018
3 min

How to Adapt to the Future of Air Freight Cargo

There is a notable movement within the air freight industry taking place right now. It seems to be circling around an adapt or be left behind notion. Notwithstanding, rather theoretically transcending, is the idea that air cargo and the forwarding of these shipments have been stuck in a systematical and paper prioritized “dinosaur age”. Evolution is a must. Ground-breaking disruption is inevitable and is often the catalyst of forward development. We are seeing this type of pr

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Why the Sudden Increase in Air Freight Traffic?

Leah Barrier

Jul 20, 2018
2 min

Why the Sudden Increase in Air Freight Traffic?

2018 air freight rates did not decline in typical fashion following the industry wide peak season last December. As a matter of fact, rates are still hearty in terms of rising trend lines according to data in Drewry’s East-West Airfreight Price Index. Beginning of the year declines are normal, however, this year shows a 3% air freight rate increase that progressed well into March. Early February displayed the year-to-year rates up over 14%, seemingly derived from an increase

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