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you store my shipment in a warehouse before
it departs? That's another consideration.
" And of course, as an airline coming in, I
want to make sure you have adequate runway
length. I want to make sure you have
the appropriate landing systems in place to
guide my planes in during harsh weather, "
Fried adds.
Fried says having a warehouse on site
may not be as important, but then they'll
be looking at a trucking service to bring
freight to and from an airport - which will
require ease of access to roads.
" Not all freight forwarders need to have
warehouses. What they do need to have,
however, is a trucker that works for them
that has an available warehouse facility, "
Fried explains.
For larger operators, a warehouse will be
crucial, and is why they tend to focus on
gateway airports.
" Why we focus on the gateway is that
to economize the more cargo you give an
airline, generally speaking, the lower cost
per pound it is for your shipment. So that
gives you the ability to use wide-body
flights and the use of containerization that
might not be available from all airports. So,
you'll feed everything through a gateway
for efficiency, " Fried adds.
However, Fried notes that warehouse
space faces " severe " shortage across the
country due to the increase in online order
demands.
" There's just not enough warehouse
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space to store the goods. So, if you're a
freight forwarder looking for an office and
warehouse that's probably going to be challenging
for the time being. So, the process
is going to take a lot longer. Most of the
existing freight forwarders that have been
around for a long time already have a presence
in these markets, and they're already
set up, but for a new freight forwarder that
may not be the case, " Fried says.
The warehouse shortage returns then to
the issue of trucking which again leads to
ease of access; how quickly and efficiently
can cargo be moved into and out of the
airport?
" Let's use JFK as an example. The road
system in and around JFK is antiquated.
There hasn't been a lot of investment in
the cargo infrastructure at that airport, so
if you have established a warehouse presence
around JFK, you're going to have to
consider ease of use to the airport facility
itself. How long will your trucks be stuck
in traffic? How long will they be queuing at
terminals to drop or pick up cargo? Those
are big concerns, " Fried says.
Fried adds that freight forwarders have
been fighting the airport congestion issue
for " quite some time. "
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