Who are the players in the air freight transport market?

1. Airlines – These are not only passenger carriers but primarily those specializing in cargo. Their fleets consist of a wide range of aircraft, from small jets to huge machines adapted for carrying large loads.
2. Cargo brokers – These intermediaries handle the organization of transport between the seller and the buyer. They assist in price negotiations, choosing the right airlines, and managing all formalities.
3. Freight forwarders – Logistics experts who plan and coordinate the flow of goods. They know the best routes, handle the customs aspects of transport, and often offer additional services like warehousing or packaging of goods.
4. Airport operators and cargo terminals – They provide the infrastructure for loading, storage, and sorting of goods. Their role also includes managing air space and ensuring that all operations run smoothly and safely.
5. Customs agents – Specialists in formalities who ensure that goods crossing borders comply with all required regulations and regulations.

The most important processes in air freight transport

1. Receipt of goods and planning – Before departure, the goods must be properly prepared, packaged, and loaded. Freight forwarders and airlines plan the best route and mode of transport.
2. Ground handling – Includes all processes that take place at the airport before and after the flight, including loading, security, and customs checks.
3. Flight operations – The actual transport, which requires coordination between pilots, the control tower, and ground handling. Punctuality and safety are key here.
4. Monitoring and risk management – Goods in the air must be constantly monitored, and potential risks, such as delays or failures, managed on an ongoing basis.
5. Delivery to the recipient – The final stage is the delivery of the goods to the hands of the recipient. Here, combined transport often comes into play, combining different means of transport to reach the destination.

Air freight is an industry that requires not only extensive knowledge but also flexibility and the ability to react quickly to changing conditions. For entrepreneurs considering entering this world, it will be crucial to understand the role of each participant in the process and to build solid business relationships. The sky may be the limit, but for those who understand the air freight market well, it is a space full of unlimited possibilities.

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The response to this question is: to gain a status of a Known Consignor which is granted in Poland by the President of the Civil Aviation Association. Before we present the requirements the subjects that are attempting to gain it, need to meet first, we would like to underline the benefits resulting from the status itself. There are a few of them and – what is most important – all of them increase the security and efficiency of the cargo transport by air.

What Are The Benefits Of The Known Consignor’s Status?

A company that obtains a Known Consignor’s status benefits from numerous facilities significant for the entire posting process already at the manufacturing stage. Every cargo destined to be posted by air is covered by high security standards before it even leaves a manufacturing plant. Further benefits are associated with a shorter handling time of the cargo in the airport, with a total release from the security check as well as with ensuring of the cargo integrity upon the transport.

All the abovementioned benefits affect not only an increase of operating efficiency of manufacturing and transport companies in Poland but also their positive reception by the clients receiving cargo at final destination airports.

How To Gain The Known Consignor’s Status?

In order a company is able to obtain the Known Consignor’s status, it must meet the requirements determined by the Civil Aviation Association. They include:

• Appointment of a person in charge for security who is accessed to disclosed information (with the “disclosure” clause),
• Verification of the background check of those employees who are accessed to air cargo,
• Training of the employees,
• Elaboration of a document with description of the security measures undertaken in the company,
• Organization of internal security audits,
• Proper securing of the goods posted by air against an unauthorized interference upon manufacturing, packing, stocking and posting.

All the requirements are described in details at the Civil Aviation Association website: http://www.ulc.gov.pl/pl/ochrona/cargo. All the interested persons will also find there a table of the costs connected with administration fees paid for gaining the Know Consignor’s status.

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The most common barriers faced by the enterpreneurs in the transport industry are a necessity of a proper interpretation of legal regulations as well as meeting numerous formal conditions. Many companies give up the opportunities offered by the Regulated Agent status since well visible institutional obstacles conceal real advantages to which obtained certificates entitle to.

We would like to change it and we know how to do it.

Our response is Avsec Control – the service thanks to which a transport company will gain benefits resulting in the Regulated Agent’s status. It is sufficient to sign a cooperation agreement concerning a secure supply chain and Avsec Cargo will take care of all the necessary formalities guaranteeing it.

What will your company gain after you decide to use the Avsec Control service?

• Maintainance of the status of protection of the cargoes transported to the aiports in Europen Union,

• Participation in a secure supply chain also within the Road Feeder Service (RFS) service,

• Opportunity to use services handled by various air freight forwarders as well as loading additional cargo with the SPX status without breaking a secure supply chain,

• Identity verification and a backgroud check of the hired employees.

On the basis of a signed cooperation agreement Avsec Cargo will supervise the personnel transporting air cargoes. Within this supervision, the company will perform a backgroud check of the employees pursuant to the point 11.1.3 (b) of the EU Commission’s Implementing Regulation no. 2015/1998 dated 5 November 2015 determining detailed security measures in order to observe basic standards of the civil aviation protection.

After meeting of all the indispensable requirements, persons responsible for the transport of the air cargoes will receive an identification card confirming the cooperation with the Avsec Cargo Regulated Agent and they will be able to benefit from all the facilities resulting from it.

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If transported goods are used for production, a supply chain may also include – apart from goods’ purchase and their transport – also a process of an assembly, storage and supply to the distribution centers or clients. Individual subjects participating in a secure supply chain are commited not only to perform a security control but also to a cargo protection and its proper protection againts the acts unlawful interference on the entire transport route.

Potential participants of a secure supply chain are recognized or known consignors responsible to the cargo’s origin as well as a Regulated Agent, whose responsibility is scanning of a cargo or mail and passing it to an air carrier therefore the last link of chain. The subjects admitted for an activity as Regulated Agents are among other air carriers, groundhandling agents and freight forwarders. Scanning of the cargo may be performed exclusively by a registered agent.

Ensuring a secure supply chain, cooperating partners gain numerous benefits. There are among other: reducing to the minimum a necessity of the goods’ handling and increase of the handling fees. A superior advantage is above all is an increase of freight forwarder’s credibility as a Regulated Agent and the goods’ exporter as a known or recognized consignor in the air transport market.

Every economic operator who is granted a certificate is commited to implement and maintain in the entity a continuity of application of specific security measures upon a transport and custom clearance of air cargoes. Obtaining the certificate of the Civil Aviation Association confirms both – meeting by the entity of demanding requirements concerning a transport security and a specialized knowledge of the personnel cooperating with clients of the entity.

Obtaining the certificate is compliant with the regulation of the European Parliament and the European Council for rules of civil aviation protection in commonand the status confirmed with the certificate – recognized by the airports all over the world.

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The knowledge acquired at the training confirmed with the certificate issued by the Civil Aviation Association allows to apply numerous integrated solutions for the supply chain. Thanks to the changes, the entity faces many logistic challenges that not only improve the entire business process but also an actual competitive advantage.

The certificate of the Regulated Agent and the known or recognized consignor supports efficient organization of the goods transport process at every stage of it. All the air cargoes originating from the subjects ensuring an integrity of the security in a secure supply chain – recognized consignor, known consignor or Regulated Agent – are released from a security control and covered with lower handling fees. Apart from it, the entity gains reduced to the minimum service handling of the cargo supply on the DTA route (Door to Airport) as well as increased credibility in the transport market of an air freight.

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Demand for the majority of services – and in this regard the air transport is not here an exclusion – results from a will to satisfy desires and needs. Along with increasing demand for particular services, a high probability of negative consequences occurs. In terms of economy, they may be a result of not only a high supply but also of its excess.

Economic threats are one of many threats we need to expect in the air transport. Their other, most important category, are security threats. The most dangerous are: placement and detonation of explosives on an aircraft, illegal transport of dangerous materials, criminal acts such as smuggling and theft as well as sabbotage performed by the persons accessed to the aircraft.

Legal undertaken standards and numerous legislative initiatives in order to increase the passengers and air cargoes’ security include above all a program of a combination of the entire supply chain. Subsequently their protection will not be possible at every stage of a goods’ transport by air. In order to benefit from a secure supply chain, economic operators running air activity are commited to have the status of a regulated agent or known/recognized consignor.

Security and protection of the civil aviation cover more and more advanced protection technology including among other packages and containers, Explosive Detections Systems or biometric certificates of the employees’ identity and access control resistant to un unlawful interference.

Yet, benefiting from technological achievements will not replace a strict cooperation with the responsible subjects who, along with the ground and air handling, care about observance of appropriate security procedures in the air transport.

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