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Air Shipping The Future of Air Freight
Learning Objective
What is Air Freight?
❑ Air freight is another term for air cargo
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❑ It is to send goods like electronics, hardware , machinery,
consumer goods, toys, clothing by aircraft
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machineries,
clothes and textiles
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Advantages of Air Freight
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Secure – the shipment of cargo by air is tightly managed by security,
so the chance of cargo being stolen or damaged is low
Less warehousing requirements – the clearance time for air freight is
fast
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Cargo planes
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Air Freight Shipping Technology
Digitization-converting information into a digital format (computerreadable)
Automation -a process, to operate automatically
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❖ Shipping technology covers a broad aspect of innovation – from
digitization to automation that will helping cost sayings,
automatic tracking and relieving employees from heavy physical
labour
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All of these, if used correctly will help
to make air freight forwarding cheaper, safer, and easier
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❖ One of the most exciting innovations in this industry is the work
being completed by Boeing to develop autonomous air travel
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Robotics

To identify items, verify, pick them up,
and place them according to order
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Driverless Cars

Transporting goods in production
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➢ A lot of air freight industries are starting to reduce the use of
paper and printed materials known as digital over paper, that
allows everything to be done digitally that will provide a cost
effective, efficient, and environmentally friendlier way to ship,
as well as giving satisfaction to the customers
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➢ Paperless air freight forwarding has multiple benefits like it will
be greener, friendly apps, saving shippers time and energy and
thus making freight forwarders more attractive to customers
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