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Airfreight Forwarding : The Practitioner's Definitive Guide
For the first time, there is now a text that encompasses all you need to know about airfreight forwarding. This book, written specifically on air cargo, provides a comprehensive framework of the concepts and applications involved in airfreight, including the latest information on pricing, regulations, handling procedures and modern equipment such as aircraft, containers and materials handling equipment. The Practitioner's Definitive Guide: Airfreight Forwarding will give practitioners all-round knowledge of current, practical, hands-on field applications, while keeping them in touch with real-life practices. It is specially tailored for airfreight industry personnel, including shippers from industries like electronics, pharmaceuticals, flowers and live tropical fishes. The book includes topics such as : the roles of government agencies and associations in the industry manuals and guidelines for different types of cargo, including livestock, dangerous good and perishables functions of airlines & ground handling agents free trade zones, cross docking (consolidation, break-bulk, mixing) types of aircraft, containers and materials handling equipment import/export declarations and prohibited goods preparation of air waybills and calculation of freight rates the internet and its facilitation of e-commerce Readily understood and easily put into practice, this book commissioned by the Singapore Logistics Association is the ideal reference or textbook for the practitioner, student and layperson.