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AIR FREIGHT

SEND YOUR IMPORT AND EXPORT SHIPMENTS BY AIR, SAVING TIME AND OPTIMISING COSTS

Preventing stockouts in a clothes shop, sending high-value shipments with an onboard courier, getting spare parts to the other side of the world to prevent a factory stoppage, sending samples for a trade fair or to potential customers, shipping perishable and urgent goods, or products with a short expiry date.

Tell us what you need and our specialist team will deliver it personally to the recipient, if necessary, taking care of all the procedures involved in the air freight process.

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AIR FREIGHT

Services

If your number one priority is to reduce transit times to a minimum, our door-to-door services can transport your goods from your warehouse to the final destination. This is perfect for scheduled shipments of material or clothes to replenish stock.

In addition, our teams are on hand 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, to take care of any unexpected circumstances, in which speed is of the essence. We can coordinate and organise urgent shipments at short notice, such as a factory stoppage, spare parts for the aviation industry (Aircraft on Ground), or medical equipment for a campaign hospital in Africa.

We can offer immediate solutions for crisis situations.

  • Door to door

    We can handle your air shipments from start to finish, from your warehouse to your customer’s doorstep, including Customs procedures. There are over 40,000 airports around the world and a huge variety of connections on offer so you can send your goods door to door, streamlining transit times.

  • Charter Services

    We can organise special flights, chartering an entire plane in which your goods are the sole priority, to send large batches of goods swiftly and quickly to your required destination, should there be space constraints in high season or limited capacity issues. Alternatively, we can send a plane to any airport in the world to collect your goods and deliver them to your facilities or your customer’s premises.

  • Cross Trade: TRIANGULAR TRANSACTIONS

    For buying and selling operations in which more than two companies are involved, we ship directly from the place of origin to the destination, ensuring the opacity of the operation, to reduce costs.

  • Air consolidation to Portuguese-speaking countries

    Benefit from reduced prices in your shipments to Angola, Cape Verde e Mozambique using our weekly air consolidations for African Portuguese-speaking countries.

  • Air freight from Hong Kong to Portugal

    We have service for imports from Southern China at competitive rates.

  • Air freight with temperature controlled

    Know our options for refrigerated and frozen perishables.

ADDITIONAL SERVICES

STORAGE AND HANDLING

We store your goods in our warehouses in the main airport cargo terminals so that they can reach their destination swiftly and safely. Storage can include palletising, non-transparent shrink wrapping for sensitive goods (electronic goods, fashion items, cosmetics), thermal blankets, and gel packs and dry ice for perishable products.

PROCESSING DOCUMENTATION

The MyTIBA platform provides you with access to all your shipment documents at any time. You can download all the shipment documents and share files with your customers, access your track and trace maps, add documents and consult your document records.

Thanks to the e-freight system implemented by IATA, paper documentation is no longer required, thus simplifying and speeding up operations, increasing security and reducing costs.

TRACK AND TRACE YOUR AIR FREIGHT SHIPMENTS

You can track your shipments through MyTIBA, as it integrates all the transport flows from anywhere in the world through to our logistics platform and/or the customer’s doorstep.

MyTIBA provides you with round-the-clock information about your shipments in real time, whenever you need it, without having to contact our staff or stick to specific opening hours.

WHO ARE OUR AIR FREIGHT SERVICES AIMED AT?

Air freight is the perfect solution for all types of goods where speed is of the essence. It is the best solution for goods that need to be delivered quickly according to schedule or urgently as a result of unexpected circumstances.

SAMPLES

Perfect for samples which need to be delivered to customers or potential clients. As they are normally small shipments, air freight is the ideal solution for saving time and optimising costs.

PRODUCTS WITH A SHORT EXPIRY DATE

Air freight is ideal for shipping perishable goods, such as strawberries, oysters, and anchovies that require urgent delivery, constant quality and/or controlled temperature.

MATERIAL FOR TRADE FAIRS AND EVENTS

This includes sending the equipment required to attend a trade fair abroad or needed for a specific event, such as audio and lighting equipment. It is also ideal for shipping works of art, exhibition stands or promotional material for a sales event. This service also includes obtaining ATA carnets to move freely between countries.

HIGH-VALUE PRODUCTS

Highly valuable or fragile goods, or products which need to be guarded such as jewellery, vaccinations, biological samples, insulin and other medicines.

SCHEDULED STOCK REPLENISHMENT

This can include fashion items and material for industries that work on a campaign basis, assembly line parts, and other businesses that work to order.

URGENCY

Urgency is the name of the game when unexpected circumstances and problems arise such as the threat of a factory stoppage, stockouts, repairs needed in renewable energy plants, or broken aircraft engines or parts that prevent planes from flying (Aircraft On Ground).

SOME EXAMPLES OF OUR EXPERIENCE

  • SHIPMENT OF PERISHABLE GOODS FOR THE VEGETABLE SEASON IN NORTH AMERICA
    During the vegetable season from October to February, New York, Toronto, Montreal and Chicago and other North American cities receive several tonnes of peppers, cucumber and other vegetables every week. We have preferential agreements with major airlines that reserve space for us on direct flights thus guaranteeing timely deliveries. In addition, we protect the most sensitive products with thermal blankets and gel packs so that they reach their destination in optimum conditions.
  • HANGING GARMENT DELIVERY SERVICE
    Our customers, who are international benchmark firms in the fashion industry, trust us to handle their orders and supply their retail outlets and franchises with the latest garments and items.  We optimise transport and offer the best routes (especially in Latin America, the Middle East and China), ensuring regular deliveries to customers.
  • CLASSIC CARS
    We transported a 1931 Rolls Royce from Spain to Japan. As it was carrying fuel and oil, it was classed as a dangerous goods shipment and had to be registered as such in the DGD. The haulage and air freight were carried out with an almost empty petrol tank (with just enough fuel to carry out the loading and unloading manoeuvres), and the battery was disconnected, as per the IATA manual. We solved the lashing issues by using straps attached to the spokes of the wheels, with authorisation from the airline, instead of to the chassis as is normally the case, thus preventing the risk of breaking the suspension.
  • VEHICLE VALVES
    A major automotive company in Buenos Aires needed 2,000 plastic valves from Germany for its assembly line. The customer could not wait for the order making it an urgent delivery. We collected the goods in Paris, divided them up into two suitcases and flew to Argentina checking in and clearing the goods personally through Customs.
  • BOAT PARTS
    Shipment of spare parts and equipment for fishing boats, such as sonar devices, measuring devices and buoys for tuna fishing boats, to destinations such as the Seychelles, Mauritius and Reunion Island, providing swift, urgent solutions to fleets of over 500 boats.
  • SPARE PARTS FOR THE AEROSPACE INDUSTRY: SPACE CENTRE
    Shipment of measuring equipment to the French Guyana space centre. We coordinated the shipment from Madrid to Orly Airport in France, then the connection to the following flight which had been reserved for sending the aerospace equipment to French Guyana, where the space centre is located.

STRENGTHS AND ADVANTAGES OF AIR FREIGHT

  • SPEED

    Air freight is the fastest mode of transport and reduces transit times to a minimum. It also provides the fastest, most immediate solutions to unscheduled or unexpected circumstances.

  • MONITORING

    Goods are monitored at all times. They can be guarded or even carried personally by our staff.

  • SAFETY

    Air freight is the mode of transport with the lowest accident rate, which means it is the safest place to carry your merchandise, especially high value goods.

  • BROAD NETWORK

    There are over 40,000 airports globally which means we can swiftly transport your goods anywhere in the world. Air freight reaches places other modes of transport cannot get to.

  • LOWER WAREHOUSING COSTS

    Goods are collected on the customer’s doorstep just before they are loaded, which does away with warehousing costs. They are then transported directly to the airport and after they have undergone the necessary controls, are loaded into the plane’s hold.

  • SMALL CONSIGNMENTS

    It is cheaper to use air freight for small consignments under 300 kg, as it does away with the need for groupage, when the goods have to be consolidated and deconsolidated, and saves time.

Contact us to get more info and send your goods by air

Tell us what you need and our specialist team will deliver it personally to the recipient, if necessary, taking care of all the procedures involved in the air freight process.

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