It is more expensive than shipping goods by sea, however we have competitive pricing with many airlines and overseas airfreight specialist partners to make this a viable option for you when you need to move goods fast.
Request a quoteMuch the same as with sea freight consolidation, this is the more affordable way of shipping your goods by air to and from China. It means the air cargo will be loaded together with a number of other consignments under one airline master air waybill with separate individual house air waybills. This reduces/spreads the costs. It is a benefit if you only have a small amount of cargo to transport. The transit time is around 5-7 days door to door from / most major locations. Consolidations are usually twice a week as it is important to build up enough volume for the same destination to achieve maximum benefits for our clients.
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Back to back service means that your consignments will be shipped alone under one House Airwaybill and one Master Airwaybill. The benefit of this is that for most destinations flights will be daily as you do not need to wait for other people’s goods to form a consolidation. For smaller shipments this can mean higher prices compared against consolidation air shipping, however for larger consignments you can usually achieve equilibrium with consolidation pricing.
Get in touchMannson Freight can often offer same day as well as next day collection / delivery for urgent import and export air freight shipments so that you can minimize time taken from door to door. Contact sales@mannson.com for a competitive air freight price.
Freighter aircraft are used to move larger items (usually over 1.55 - 1.60m high) which can not fit into the cargo hold of conventional / passenger flights. The costs is usually higher than both consolidation air freight and back to back air freight and the goods will usually tranship at a hub on route so transit time can be longer than back to back service.
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Mannson Freight can often offer same day as well as next day collection / delivery for urgent import and export air freight shipments so that you can minimize time taken from door to door. Contact sales@mannson.com for a competitive air freight price.
Mannson Freight can often offer same day as well as next day collection / delivery for urgent import and export air freight shipments so that you can minimize time taken from door to door. Contact sales@mannson.com for a competitive air freight price.
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Global Shipping can be a confusing subject for the uninitiated. MFS are here to help you with our useful FAQ’s. If there is anything that we don’t cover please click below and send us your question about our services.
Get in touchA: Your price to ship goods by air is predominantly based on the volumetric weight of your goods. For example airlines could not charge same price for 50kg of steel and 50kg of cotton wool as the cotton wool shipment may well fill the aircraft. Therefore airlines work on a volumetric weight for light weight goods. The way to calculate is to divide the actual volume of your goods (length x width x height in m = m3) by 6. For example if you have 1 pallet 1m x 1m x 1.2m then your shipment actual volume is 1.2m3, divide this by 6 to get to 0.200 which equals volumetric weight of 200kg. If this weight is higher than the actual weight of your goods then the volumetric weight is used to calculate the freight price of your shipment. There can be connotations to this but as a basic rule you can use the this calculation.
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