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Who We Serve: Farming & Food

Who We Serve - Farming and Food

The agricultural industry faces mounting operational challenges. 

Farming is as old as civilization itself, yet for all its new methods and technologies, it still has many of the same age-old supply and delivery problems. Lack of seed, fertilizer, equipment, and other essentials can break an otherwise successful farming operation, and because food production is seasonal, there’s not much time to fill in such gaps. The result is that farmers often find themselves in trouble with little warning, and have no choice but to react quickly.

Industry Statistics

16-20

Hours of average run time for food processing plants

$30,000

Hourly cost generated for food processing industry unplanned downtime

$9,000

Per line hourly cost for bakeries unplanned downtime

20

Average capacity loss due to unplanned downtime
Farming and Food Freight

AirFreight.com is an expert at quick reactions.

We’re an air freight broker with years of experience serving farming and food production businesses. We've seen supply problems of every variety, from standard seasonal shortfalls to the rarest and most pressing of challenges. We have the expertise and the resources to deal with all these problems and get you back to what you do best. AirFreight.com is proud to work with North America’s farmers, keeping an essential industry thriving and the whole world fed!

AirFreight.com by the Numbers

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4.9/5

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50,000+

Traceable delivery vehicles

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Support and tracking information

Supply Chain Ingenuity

Like most industries over the last few decades, agriculture has seen supply chains become increasingly long and complex. 

Farming and Food Shipping

Shipping Challenges

These long, complex supply chains are beneficial to farmers in many ways: They empower farmers to find the best crop varieties and most advanced equipment on the market. But longer supply chains also mean a greater potential for mishaps. The more distance your supplies have to cross, the more likely they are to run into air or ground traffic jams. The more connecting roads or flights your suppliers take, the greater the risk that one of those routes will be closed. And the more regularly your shipments have to arrive, the higher the odds that some of them will be damaged, or at least diverted, by bad weather.

Air Freight Services and Expertise

Air Freight Services and Expertise

When we coordinate emergency deliveries, we assign a centralized team to consider the many different possible routes your supplies could take. Each route has its unique pros and cons, all of which we balance carefully when strategizing the best path for the particular items you’re shipping. If time is of the essence, we choose roads or flights that offer the shortest distance, the highest legal speed, and the lowest likelihood of a traffic jam. For equipment that’s sensitive to weather conditions, we select routes with the lowest risk of inclement weather for that season and time of day.

Caring For Your Clients

Caring for Your Clients

In addition to obtaining the supplies they need, farmers also often struggle to deliver products to customers. The same logistical troubles that plague air and ground shipments coming into your farm also affect deliveries heading out. It doesn’t help that food and other agricultural products are, by their very nature, highly perishable. If your products don’t arrive at their destinations on time, your customers might not get anything out of them. As a farmer, you not only need to make sure your standard outgoing shipments are efficient and timely but also have a backup plan to deliver on time if the original plan doesn’t work out.

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Expedited Freight Coordinator

The suppliers in our network take over any supply operation, no matter why things went wrong or how much farther your goods have to travel to reach your customers. Our ability to solve delivery mishaps so seamlessly stems in part from the vast size and widespread coverage of our network. We coordinate air and ground carriers in every major city across North America. We also have partners in key locations outside of major cities, so even if your delivery route lies far off the beaten path, our partners' trucks and planes will never be far away. Likewise, if the flight you’d been counting on to serve your customers gets canceled, we can schedule or charter a new one. One way or another, we’ll make sure your crops have a route to their destination.

Emergency Delivery

Emergency Delivery

We plan each emergency delivery by considering a wide range of possible routes. Although we end up selecting just one of those routes, we keep the others on hand in case our first choice doesn’t work out. Whenever we need to divert one of the trucks in our network to a different road or switch your wares over to a different connecting flight, we'll immediately know the next-best option. To coordinate these changes, our centralized team of logistics experts track every affiliated truck and plane using advanced monitoring technology. Our trackers know the moment something goes wrong, and they react quickly to get the shipment back on its route to your customer.

Seamless Service Across Air & Sky

Seamless Service Across Air & Sky

We’re called AirFreight.com because we’re experts at air delivery, and we've built a massive network of airline partners all over North America. As you’ve probably gathered by now, AirFreight.com also coordinates deliveries by truck and van. We recognize that clients delivering over shorter distances or with more flexible schedules find trucking to be a more realistic logistics solution, even in an emergency. Air deliveries are often enhanced by the addition of ground resources—after all, someone has to take your goods to the departing airport and pick them up from the receiving airport.

Air and Ground Services

Air and Ground Services

AirFreight.com has trained its team to carefully coordinate air and ground services. Any time this pair come into play, we know how to coordinate both means of transportation for ultimate efficiency. If we’re coordinating a delivery entirely by truck or entirely by plane, we keep the transportation method we’re not using in mind in case a switch is required at a moment's notice. By combining air and ground expertise, we ensure someone is available every step of the way to get your supplies to your farm or your crops to your customers.

Evolving Expertise

Agriculture is changing, and AirFreight.com makes an effort to stay ahead of those changes. To ensure that we offer the best possible emergency freight services to our farming and food production customers, we:

Study New Trends

Study New Trends

We research environmental, logistical, technological, and other changes that affect the agricultural industry. From the equipment farmers are using to the size of their supply chains to the shifting weather systems that affect when they can grow crops, we stay apprised of every relevant fact. This way, we know exactly what emergency services your business is likely to need before you need them, and we hit the ground running as soon as you request our help.

Expand Our Network

Expand Our Network

Farmers exist all across North America. To broker emergency services effectively, we must be as close to our customers as possible from the very beginning. For this reason, we are constantly recruiting new drivers and airlines into our partner network. By carefully vetting suppliers in as many towns as possible and affiliating with those of the highest quality, we make sure we’re never far from your starting points or your destinations.

Assess Our Services

Assess Our Services

We’re proud of the AirFreight.com service record, but we recognize there’s always room for improvement. We carefully review past agricultural deliveries, identifying any delays or disruptions that did occur and figuring out how to avoid them going forward.

Speedy, Reliable Deliveries

Provide Speedy, Reliable Deliveries

No industry depends on speedy, reliable deliveries more than agriculture. AirFreight.com is there to make sure that no emergency gets in the way of success for your farming or food production business. To learn more or place an order, call (800) 713-1000 today!

Industries We Serve

Aviation & Aerospace

Every moment a commercial airliner sits on the ground, it costs an airline money. Expedited freight services by AirFreight.com can get you back in the air with the prompt delivery of parts and equipment throughout North America.
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Construction

Because one shipping delay can snowball and cause delays throughout your entire project, you need an experienced 3PL provider who understands the construction industry and has the logistical reach to deliver your freight on time, anywhere. That 3PL partner is AirFreight.com.
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Energy

The consequences from lost power production are serious for any business. Equipment failure is one of the biggest causes of energy production downtime. Losses compound exponentially with delay, loss of energy capacity, or the idling of plants for scheduled or unscheduled maintenance. Whether it's a hydroelectric power station or solar farm, you need a 3PL provider who can move your parts and equipment safely and securely while meeting your most stringent deadlines.

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Manufacturing

Every moment a manufacturing facility or factory sits idle costs a company money due to the high costs involved in lost sales and lost customers. With many manufacturers building to just-in-time production rates, any disruption threatens parts and vehicle inventories. This is where the speed, expertise, and experience of freight services from AirFreight.com make a difference throughout the entire manufacturing supply chain.
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Oil & Gas

The oil and gas industry faces challenging conditions in offshore and onshore oil rigs, often in remote locations with limited infrastructure. Don’t let oil pumps or pipelines sit idle, waiting for equipment. By having the right plans, parts, people, and a logistics partner such as AirFreight.com, you can effectively mitigate plant or pump downtime, unscheduled disruptions, and equipment failures.
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Renewables & Environment

Wind turbines can be as tall as an 85-story building with a blade radius of an acre. Transporting just one wind turbine can take up to nine separate shipments. Solar equipment includes sensitive electronics and glass that are easily subject to damage. Constructing one solar panel requires nearly 40 different components, including precious metals, that need to get to the factory on time. With requirements like this, it's critical to work with the right 3PL provider that can flex with your needs when situations and requirements change.
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Retail

During downtime, retailers experience lost sales with the inability to process credit cards, access customer purchasing history, or locate items in stock at a distribution center or another retail location. Don’t let unexpected downtime due to point-of-sale equipment failures impact your brand or frustrate your customers. If you can’t serve your customers, your competition will!
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Technology

Unexpected IT downtime can bring down even the largest businesses—just ask airlines when their reservation systems go offline. The importance of e-commerce, online sales, and the computing infrastructure that supports it makes getting systems and servers up and running even more critical. With 98% of organizations reporting that a single hour of downtime costs over $100,000, you can’t afford a slow logistics partner.
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3PL

With today’s broken supply chains, even companies that specialize in logistics find themselves needing help. We provide an expansive network of expedited air and ground shipping options to make the trip in the air, to and from the airport, or complete the entire delivery on the ground. Through these resources and our centralized planning operations, we help 3PL providers overcome all the challenges of their industry.
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