Getting to know Air and sea freight

Air freight refers to the process of organizing and facilitating air transportation solutions for lightweight cargo which may need quick attention and delivery. The air freight shipment can travel anywhere designed for planes to land and take off. The air freight mode of goods transportation has become most common among most business owners today. In the recent past, delivering products to remote areas inaccessible by road required air freight. Today, air freight has made it possible to carry bulky cargo, which was only possible by the use of sea freight.

Sea freight is the mode of transportation using cargo ships. Commodities are arranged in containers and then loaded on a vessel in which they get sailed to their destined country. Sea freight, therefore, is the transportation of heavy cargo that takes longer to reach their destination. Also, sea freight takes care of transporting cargo considered hazardous and require careful handling.

Customers choose between air and sea freight depending on the type of commodities to move, the cost of transportation, duration of the travel, and the condition of products. Some commodities are considered too risky to transport by air, such commodities such as harmful chemicals, fuels and perishable goods due to temperature should never gt transported by air.

The one drawback with sea freight is that it may take longer to deliver the commodities and may inconvenience customers who have a sense of urgency. On the other hand, air freight offers challenges such as the inability to transport heavy-duty cargo as well as the high cost of travel.

Therefore customers are entitled to seek logistics consultation from freight forwarding companies to find out the ideal mode of transportation for their cargo. Sea freight is controlled by a cycle in the economic changes caused by the fleet, types of commodities transported during a low shipping season.