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How to find air transport for transportation of your cargo on the Moldovatruck website

Air transport is the youngest of the modern modes of transport for cargo transportation. This is the fastest type of freight transport. Even the longest commercial aircraft flight between Australia and the UK took less than 17 hours. Accordingly, any cargo sent from one airport can arrive at the destination airport in less than a day. Sometimes the speed of cargo delivery is a critical value, and shippers are ready to ignore the cost of such delivery.

What kind of goods and where can be transported by air transport

Commercial cargo can be sent both by scheduled passenger aircraft and special transport aircraft. Regular passenger aircraft are capable of delivering only small cargoes. It must be said that cargo aviation cannot boast of a high carrying capacity.

The An-225 Mriya aircraft holds the world record for carrying capacity and this record is 253.8 tons of cargo. It should be noted that the Mriya aircraft is in a single copy. An-124 “Ruslan” has a carrying capacity of 120 tons, the same carrying capacity of the Boeing-747. A number of An, Il and Boeing models have a carrying capacity of 39 to 50 tons. Most cargo planes are not capable of carrying more than 20 tons of cargo. So the world’s most common transport aircraft Lockheed C-130 Hercules has a carrying capacity of 19 tons. The volumes of the cargo compartments and the size of the loading hatch of the aircraft are also limited.

Thus, the transportation of truly large and heavy cargoes by air transport is impossible. To this must be added the high cost of aircraft and airports capable of receiving them. As a result, aviation is the most expensive mode of freight transport. At the same time, aviation does not have any restrictions on the transportation of goods, except for weight-dimensional ones. Actually, it is capable of transporting any cargo, including packaged liquids and bulk cargo. A number of cargo aircraft are capable of transporting ISO containers.

It makes sense to use aviation as a cargo vehicle when transporting expensive perishable goods. In particular, most of the fresh flowers are transported by aviation. Aircraft for such transportation are equipped with refrigerated compartments. In addition, cargo is transported by aircraft when transport costs are not considered: expensive and unique cargo, humanitarian aid, etc.

As for the geography of transportation, on the one hand, the whole world is accessible to aviation, and on the other hand, an airfield is needed for landing an aircraft. And, the greater the carrying capacity of the aircraft used, the more high-quality and expensive airfield it needs.

How to find air transport for your cargo on the Moldovatruck website

If you decide to send your cargo by air transport, the site offers two options for its search:

1. First, study the offers of transport companies involved in air cargo transportation. To do this, select “Exchange” in the main menu of the site, and “Air transport” in the drop-down menu. You will find yourself on the page “View air transport” and you will be able to see all the offers of carriers. To facilitate the search, there is a filter on the page that allows you to select offers by countries of dispatch and delivery of goods. The carriers’ contact information is open and by selecting the appropriate offer, you can contact them directly.
2. If the first method did not give the desired result, place your own ad about the transportation you need. To do this, at the top of the same page, activate the button “add your cargo” and fill out the drop-down application form. Your request will be placed in the section “View air cargo“. Contact information will be available to all logisticians of transport companies who study it regularly. They will contact you soon.

Use the possibilities of the Moldovatruck website and you will easily find air transport for your cargo.