Air Cargo

T&L combines full cargo service expertise and experience with operations planning and industrial engineering skills to realise strategic developments, cargo operations solutions and revenue optimisation opportunities for air cargo service providers.

High fuel costs, intense competition - both in the air and on the ground - and complex security requirements continue to challenge air cargo operators.
Air cargo providers require simplified, cost-effective and customer-driven processes that inspire efficiency in their business and satisfy customers’ specific business and time requirements. There is also a need to effectively coordinate commercial and operations plans to improve service and optimise revenue.

Transport & Logistics Consultancy helps shape cargo businesses. Inspired by our consultants’ background in managing, planning and developing cargo operations, we realise strategic and operational cargo developments for air cargo operators.

Our work for air cargo service providers is in designing operations and facilities, developing strategies, improving processes and in making operations more efficient or more reliable. Below is an overview of how we apply our core service offering specifically within an air cargo environment.

Services Specific to Air Cargo Service Providers:

Cargo Strategy

• Market strategy

• Freight forecasting

• Cargo business strategy & planning: encompassing product, route, customer and airport strategies and developments

• Facilities strategy

• Master planning

Cargo Facility and Operations Design

• Facilities location and facilities sizing: for individual facilities and cargo villages

• Conceptual & detailed facility layout design, including access and control points

• Terminal operations design,

Vehicle operations design

Operations Performance Improvement

• Break & build, sort and load & unload operations process and procedure optimisation

• Aircraft turnround process reengineering and improvement

• Ground handling resource and equipment planning

• Aircraft container (ULD) planning and management

Revenue Management

• Strategies to increase load factors and yields

• Capacity, demand and yield management, including pricing strategies and product mix

Cargo Marketing

• Marketing planning

• Route development and network optimisation

Programme Management

• Air cargo operations improvement programmes

• New air cargo facility operations readiness and testing

• New facility commissioning and business migration

• Major air cargo industry process change and implementation

 

Delivering Results: Air Cargo Operations

British Airways World Cargo	Operations Migration Our team provided planning and project management support in the migration of BAWC’s £multi-million p.a. air cargo business into a purpose-built automated freight handling facility at Heathrow Airport.
IATA	Cargo 2000: Process Design T&L provided process development support, and cargo and integrator expertise to the Cargo 2000 initiative. We performed analysis and design of freight forwarder and airline cargo activities and played a leading role in the development of the industry standard Master Operating Plan
Budapest Airport	Cargo Facility Development Support I will add text

 

Inspiring Air Cargo Operators: Expertise and Insights

Meet our air cargo experts  More > (I will add link)
Delivering results worldwide: an overview of our international air cargo projects  More > (I will add link)

 

 

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