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| With Covid and a reduction in shipping lift, air freight jumped from an average of 3 dollars a kilogram to 27 dollar a kilogram. It's on the decline somewhat, but still up considerably from what it was. |
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| I stopped working in April 2020 and I regularly got weekly air freights from Germany for Medical Device parts along with sea freight. Starting in March 2020 as flights were shutting down, air freight costs were increasing at least 30% every week. Now with fuel prices increasing and flight numbers still down, I can believe any price quoted me. Our customs broker assured us it's was industry wide.
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| | | Posts: 20193 | Location: The Free State of Arizona - Ditat Deus | Registered: March 24, 2011 | 
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| As said above, it is ridiculous to air freight anything in currently. The only time it would make any sense is for very high dollar value items that could easily absorb the cost of freight. Medical equipment, high $ machinery, etc. that is business critical. Ocean freight time/cost, should be better coming from Europe to the US east coast. Ports are still jacked up because of higher volumes, but travel time and offloading is still much better than the left coast I have to deal with.
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| | | Posts: 1150 | Location: The Republic of Texas | Registered: April 11, 2008 |
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| contact a freight forwarder...there are usually many at the airports. I used to work with one many years ago. They know their stuff.
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