Yes, Kelley offers ground and air freight services to and from Canada and Mexico. Customs assistance is taken care of by Kelley. We typically need the shipper’s Customs outbound and inbound broker names. These are Customs brokers who only handle Customs paperwork for Customs clearance and have a prior power-of-attorney relationship usually with the shipper. The shipper’s Bill of Lading and declared value paperwork must match in descriptions for before customs will clear it. Kelley handles all the other details.
How does air charter freight work?
While each customer has unique needs for each shipment, here is a basic shipping sequence:
1. A local truck is dispatched to your dock to pick up your freight and carry it to one of the 5,000 US airports. That truck can be immediately provided by Kelley.
2. There is less regulation as no TSA is required for any air charter freight aircraft.
3. The freight is loaded onto the plane at the airport, organized by Kelley along with ramp, landing, and handling.
4. The freight is flown by air to a local airport near your required destination or customer.
5. The same is provided as above at the destination airport, with a local truck based close to the final delivery location. That second local truck is usually provided by Kelley too. The truck is unloaded at the final destination. All applicable federal excise taxes related to air are paid as appropriate by Kelley before the customer receives the bill. All estimates are provided to the customer upon booking.
Are there any other considerations with Air Charter Freight?
Yes, when moving anything less than two full skids via air charter, it is important to ask the hard question of whether it’s necessary to ship what is essentially basically one or two 4-foot cube size containers, or can the containers be separated into smaller units, allowing the them to be hand-loaded in a more compact manner through a smaller cargo or passenger door of the plane. Making smaller material units more than doubles the number of planes available and also allows for smaller airports to be used that are closer PU and Delivery without congestion and forklifts. These smaller airports typically cost dramatically less to operate in an out of and smaller aircraft are exempt from federal excise taxes unlike larger aircraft.
