Charter services provider encourages early bookings
During the coronavirus outbreak, Air Partner has seen a large increase in urgent freight requests from companies seeking to transport different commodities between Europe, North America and Asia.
Following growing constraints on logistics due to measures imposed to contain Covid-19, the charter company is imploring forwarders to book air cargo transport in advance to keep their supply chains moving. CEO Mark Briffa: "We’re seeing a spike in air freight service requests as many commercial flights are being grounded and at a time when Chinese industrial production is restarting after a month-long shutdown."
For example, there is a reduction in slots across China, with moving operations from Shanghai PVG to other alternate airports such as Changsha (CSX), Zhengzhou (CGO), Ningbo (NGB) and Sunan (WUX). (ah)