Air Freight

Air Freight

Air Freight

2022/07/18

Air freight: is the transport of goods by planes from one place to another and from one country to another. Air freight is characterized by speed and the ability to respond quickly to transportation requirements to meet the required emergency transportation, as happens in major disasters, as well as for the transportation of perishable goods, medical materials and others. In view of the importance of the role of air freight, many companies have developed aircraft for freight and transport of goods and increased the sizes of their absorption and provided them with large doors that allow the loading of large or long shipments and increased the rigidity of their floors and equipped them with solid balls for rolling and many points for fixing shipments of all kinds. Some of them were also provided with levers along the structure of the aircraft to move different weights
Some of them were made without windows. On the other hand, air transport companies have created specialized departments for air freight, or they have established new specialized air freight companies. With the increase in demand for air cargo, airports began to build specialized wings to handle air cargo, and companies specialized in air cargo increased and operated regular flights to transport air cargo on increasing hubs.

Land freight: It is the oldest type of freight recognized in the countries of the world, through which items are transported from one place to another, and the process of transporting trucks includes the following types:
Heavy transport trucks: heavy transport trucks (trailers) mean. The truck is refrigerated and is closed and transports food and juices. Flatbed trucks approximately 12 meters long. Trucks with gaskets to protect cargo. Trucks are with box only. Car carriers, which load saloon cars and transport them fro
m place to place, and carry about 8 to 10 saloon cars, and the usual loads in land freight are in the range of 24 tons to 50 tons, depending on the type and capacity of the truck. There is also a lorry and the shape of the truck is 6 meters long

Only a half lorry and it is less in length and the average loading weight is about 4 to 5 tons. There is also a semi-truck with a load of one and a half tons. Land freight is the second most important means of transportation after sea freight, where sea freight is the mainstay of transportation in the world of freight and land freight is the pillar The poorest in transportation between neighboring countries and within the country itself, as it is the fastest means of transportation in large shipments with large weights, and in the case of wars, land transportation is the mainstay of supply and supply in the army in case of wars.