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Freight Carriers
Cargo airlines (or airfreight carriers, and derivatives of these names) are airlines dedicated to the transport of cargo. Some cargo airlines are divisions or subsidiaries of larger passenger airlines. more...
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Logistics
Air transport or rather airfreight is a component of the logistics, too. However, Logistics is the art and science of managing and controlling the flow of goods, energy, information and other resources like products, services, and people, from the source of production to the marketplace. It is difficult or nearly impossible to accomplish any international trading, global export/import processes, international repositioning of raw materials/products and manufacturing without a professional logistical support. It involves the integration of information, transportation, inventory, warehousing, material handling, and packaging. The operating responsibility of logistics is the geographical repositioning of raw materials, work in process, and finished inventories where required at the lowest cost possible.
Aircraft used
Larger cargo airlines tend to use new or recently built aircraft to carry their freight, but many use older aircraft, like the Boeing 707, Boeing 727, Douglas DC-8, DC-10, MD-11, B 747#747-200F, Ilyushin Il-76. Examples of the 60-year-old Douglas DC-3 are still flying around the world carrying cargo (as well as passengers). Short range turboprop airliners such as the An-12, An-26, Fokker Friendship, and British Aerospace ATP are now being modified to accept standard air freight pallets to extend their working lives. This normally involves the replacement of glazed windows with opaque panels, the strengthening of the cabin floor and insertion of a broad top-hinged door in one side of the fuselage.
A number of cargo airlines carry a few passengers from time to time on their flights, and UPS once unsuccessfully tried a passenger charter airline division.
Notable cargo airlines
All-cargo
ABX Air;
Airnet Express;
Air Hong Kong;
American International Airways/Kalitta;
Atlas Air;
Australian Air Express;
Blue Dart Aviation;
Burlington Air Express;
Cargo 360;
Cargojet Airways;
Cargolux;
Challenger Air Cargo;
DAS Air Cargo;
DHL Aviation;
Emerald Air;
Emery Worldwide;
Evergreen International Airlines;
FedEx;
Fine Air;
First Flight;
Flying Tiger Line;
Gemini Air Cargo;
Heavylift Cargo Airlines;
Jade Cargo International;
Kalitta Air;
Kelowna Flightcraft (on behalf of Purolator);
Kitty Hawk Aircargo;
Martinair;
Murray Air (National Air Cargo Group)
LAN Cargo;
Polar Air Cargo;
Seaboard World Airlines;
Southern Air;
Tampa Cargo;
TCS Courier;
TNT;
Tol Air;
Transmile Air Services;
UPS;
Varig Log;
Read more at Wikipedia.org
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