trade route
air carriage of goods frommajor European airports like Frankfurt and Amsterdamto either Shenzhen (by Jade) or Hong Kong (with Lufthansa Cargo). After arrival, the Australia-destined shipments are transited to the nearby Chinese sea harbours and loaded on Australia-bound ocean vessels. Shipping lines are German Hamburg Sud and the Japanese K-Line,which both collaboratewith the air freight carriers by steaming the goods fromthe southern Chinese ports on the Pearl River Delta to Brisbane,Melbourne or Sydney. They offer four departures aweek both fromShenzhen and Hong Kong. Themaritime journey takes between 13 days to Brisbane andMelbourne and 16 days to Sydney. The entire transport time fromEurope to the Australian consignees ranges fromtwoweeks to 18 days. According to Lufthansa Cargo this is a highly competitive mode of freight transportation compared to the 45 to 55 days shipments need if they are sent all theway by ocean freight.
All products are flown as general cargo and can be
booked by forwarding agents under Lufthansa Cargo’s td.Pro branding. They also get a Lufthansa airwaybill number that is valid frombeginning to end, thus including all Jade flights aswell plus themaritime part of the journey between China and Australia. Currently, neither Lufthansa Cargo nor Jade has scheduled services flying‘down under’, so the air-sea concept, oncewell established,might become a valuable tool for those participating in the cargo traffic flows between Europe and Australia. A similar butwestbound sea-air traffic
Emirates offers bellyhold lift for
westbound sea-air shipments
combination is also offered by Emirates SkyCargo via Dubai or neighbouring ports in the Gulf region. Here, China-produced goods arrive by boat to be transited to Dubai International airport and flown out fromthere by Emirates SkyCargo freighters or in the bellyhold capacity of the large Emirates widebody passenger fleet to airports in Central Europe. The agent for the service is Düsseldorf-based SAT,which constantly charters SkyCargo’s equipment to fly its Europe-bound sea-air imports fromDubai to
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