Transit shed operators
Thursday, March 4th, 2010Transit shed operators provide a transit handling service for airlines and sometimes forwarders. Their function is to receive cargo from the aircraft, de-palletise and deliver to truck or vice versa via a transit shed where customs clearance is required. Specialized air trucking companies, like guaranteed air freight, provide road transport between the UK regions and the London airports, or continental airports, as well as intra-European services, where trucks substitute for aircraft, usually to a schedule. Most companies work on behalf of the airlines in servicing the forwarders requirements. Express operators provide services for the movement of mail and small packages, where the timescales for transit are measured in hours by contrast to air forwarders whose service transit times are generally managed in days, like next day air freight.