Meet deadlines and customer expectations with fast, reliable air freight services—including same day, airport to airport delivery—at all major hubs around the world.
Every supply chain has unique needs. Our comprehensive air freight services, global reach, and local knowledge give you customized, reliable air freight solutions based on your requirements to ensure your freight arrives at its destination as planned.
Connect with an expertGet capacity for items with flexible transit times. Standard air service offers reliability at economical rates.
Enjoy the premium benefits of our defined air scheduling to ensure your freight arrives according to plan.
Get it there fast—rely on our deep air carrier relationships to expedite your air freight. Our investment in key air gateways is your advantage.
When every minute counts, we’ll secure an aircraft to move your complex, oversized, and time sensitive air freight at maximum speed with minimum hassle.
Transport your heavy, overdimensional, and specialized freight safely with customized air shipping solutions. Our field experts have the specialized experience to coordinate every shipment with care.
Combine the advantages of air freight and sea shipping—including faster transit times and steadier spend—with a streamlined, multimodal process under a unified bill of lading.
Maintain your speed advantage with our customs brokerage services to complement your air services. Work with our Trusted Advisor® experts to keep your imports and exports moving quickly through global air freight hubs.
Explore customs brokerage servicesKeep up with ever-changing import and export regulations to mitigate risks to your air freight. With our knowledge of the intricacies involved in global trade, you can proactively solve compliance issues.
Explore trade policy servicesSafeguard your air freight from financial exposure, physical loss, and damage while in transit. Explore your policy choices—including transactional coverage and annual policies—to ensure your coverage matches your exposure risk.
Explore insurance servicesGet more negotiating power with air freight carriers and access to capacity at a moment’s notice, even for your unplanned shipments, when you tap into our scale and expertise.
Automate, optimize, and manage every aspect of the shipment lifecycle across multiple vendors with Navisphere®, our single, global, multimodal transportation management system. It’s a complete digital ecosystem that streamlines complexity and improves efficiency up and down your supply chain.
Air freight shipping is the process of transporting cargo via air through carrier airlines.
Air freight shipping offers fast transportation, offering greater flexibility and responsiveness to market changes. Additional benefits include reliability and the ability to ship goods almost anywhere in the world.
Air freight shipping is considered the most expensive mode of transport compared to ocean. However, shippers can select from multiple air freight options that take price and transit time into consideration to create more economical rates.
Air freight services are dependent on the type of freight service secured and the overall distance of transit. Priority shipments can take anywhere from 1–2 days with standard shipments ranging from 5–10 days.
Cargo restrictions are in place for nine classes of dangerous goods. Some goods are too dangerous to transport on any aircraft, while others need approval from the aviation authority of the countries involved.
Oversize cargo can be shipped by air. Charter shipping solutions are available for the transportation of heavy and out of gauge cargo that cannot be loaded onto scheduled services.
Air freight is not the most sustainable mode of transport. In fact, aircrafts emit the most greenhouse gases per tonne kilometre, meaning it has the greatest environmental impact over other modes of transport.
Stay up to date with market changes that impact air and ocean capacity at the trade lane level—everything you need to navigate global shipping.
Supply chains are growing in complexity and moving faster than ever. Due to the nature of our fast-paced industry, there is a continuous need for additional services. Over the years, we have remained committed to expanding our global network in exciting new ways—including strategic acquisitions—that align with your changing needs.