Currently in growth mode, the commercial aerospace market faces unique challenges on the customs front. Here are the major obstacles and how a reliable logistics provider can help aerospace manufacturers optimize and streamline their supply chains. Aerospace manufacturers have a lot on their plates right now. Evolving customer requirements, order...
Read moreThe Crucial Role AOG Logistics Services Play in Keeping Airplanes Flying Last holiday season, a record 42 million passengers passed through U.S. airports. If you were one of them, you know how chaotic holiday travel can be. It’s hard to comprehend the logistics involved in moving that many people, not...
Read moreThe aerospace supply chain is a complex animal. Made up of many different links that are spread around the globe and that rely on thousands of suppliers that come together to deliver the world’s air transport vehicles, it’s facing some interesting challenges so far in 2018. “The number of orders...
Read moreDB Schenker develops streamlined logistics and transportation system for final assembly plant. It’s been three years since Airbus opened a final assembly plant for its A320 family of aircraft in Mobile, Ala., and the company’s supply chain operation now is riding high. The Toulouse, France-based aerospace manufacturer selected the Mobile...
Read moreIt holds the title of first airliner to be built with fly-by-wire systems—a groundbreaking technology that finds pilots inputting commands that are then interpreted by flight control computers (and transmitted to flight control surfaces). The Airbus A320 family— which is made up of short- to medium-range, narrow-body, commercial passenger twin-engine...
Read moreAirfreight has been at “peak season” all year long – and that was before the new iPhone Historically, we’ve seen a “low season” in the cargo airfreight industry at least once a year, where carriers, logistics providers, and shippers who rely on this service can take a breather knowing that capacity...
Read moreWorking in an industry where air traffic doubles every 15 years, and where both passenger and cargo volumes grow year over year, aerospace companies need reliable, reputable logistics networks that help them get the right part to the right place and at the right time. As air transport continues to...
Read moreA confluence of political and economic forces has prompted Europe’s largest airplane manufacturer to place a factory in Alabama — and to create one of the world’s most gargantuan supply chains. The ships from Hamburg steam into Mobile Bay several times a month. Loaded upon them are the titanic parts...
Read moreWork is now underway at the port of Everett in the US state of Washington to strengthen the South Terminal with the aim of better supporting heavy ro-ro cargo operations. The total budget for the infrastructure project is $3.8m, which includes strengthening 140-feet (43 metres) of the 700-foot (214 metre)...
Read more3-D technology makes manufacturing more agile and wastes very little material. This makes it an attractive technology for defense and it is already being used aboard the USS Essex, a U.S. Navy amphibious assault ship. This on-board manufacturing tool is rapidly expanding in the Pentagon and defense industry. “The crew...
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