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Sea-air thread

American Shipper Magazine

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Are low air cargo rates affecting this mixed transport mode opportunity? By Jon Ross The rise of just-in-time shipping and the fleeting taste of the fashion industry have led many high-end clothing shippers to embrace a multimodal sea-air solution for shipping garments from Asia to the United States. Shipping clothes by ocean vessel to a halfway point and then flying the garments on cargo planes to their final destination has been growing in popularity since the idea was...

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