Air freight carriers are moving air cargo across European skies once again after almost a week of being essentially frozen in place due to air spaces across Europe being closed due to dangerous volcanic ash that can clog airplane engines and cause other problems. The backlog of freight that needs to be moved is going to take a certain amount of time considering the finite amount of capacity that exists to move air freight in Europe and surrounding regions. Transporting a portion of the freight by trucking transport is one idea that’s being thrown around as away to reduce the backlog of air freight and the amount of time that it will take to get the backlog of freight cleared. In fact, the idea is considered by many in Europe’s freight industry to be the best solution for the current problem with time sensitive air freight that needs to make it to destination before it begins to spoil.
Estimates by many freight industry professionals suggest that the backlog of air freight could take as long as two weeks to clear. Unfortunately, a percentage of this air freight isn’t going to be able to wait for two weeks and they’re probably going to have to prioritize the freight. Transporting a large percentage of the freight that isn’t as time sensitive seems like an excellent idea? Also, if you need to, and the timeline involved with the trucking logistics of a shipment works, moving a percentage of the freight by trucking services could probably work as well. They need to find away to remove the weekend ban on trucking in some regions of Europe, if this idea is going to work though. At present trucking movements are going to be severely hampered over the weekend, when they’ll probably be implementing this idea first and with bans in place the job is going to be difficult.
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