Export - Air
Commodity Forwarders knows export perishable air cargo!!
The Foundation on which we were founded in 1974.
Strategically located, less than five miles away from each of the US gateway airports which we serve; Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Anchorage, Chicago, New York (JFK), Boston, Honolulu, Miami, and Hawaii. This proximity provides us an advantage for quick recovery and tender of perishables for transshipment, domestic on-forwarding by air or ground and consolidate then tender for export. When CFI executes air moves, the following variables are taken into consideration: pieces, weight, cube, temperature requirement, value, commodity, origin location, destination airport, seasonal weather, airline reliability, airlines refrigeration capacity, schedule, and transit time. Whether it is a ten-pound sample shipment, a seven-hundred-pound skid, that ten-thousand-pound order, or a charter aircraft, CFI’s cold chain layered approach gives us the capacity to maintain the integrity of the product and represent your global brand.
CFI has integrated our systems with many of the nearly four dozen airlines with whom we work in the United States and around the world. We book cargo and submit documentation electronically, ensuring speed and accuracy. Our proprietary technology tracks and monitors cargo in transit for delays, diversions, or out-of-bounds movement. Your cargo ships by air for a reason. Whether for a deadline, product shelf life or it’s just “the only way”, we have designed our processes around the quick and proper handling of perishable cargo moving by air or sea, anywhere in the world.
Air Cargo Network
Contracts and space commitments with over forty domestic and global airlines allows CFI to ship asparagus, strawberries, cherries, fresh fish, and a wide variety of other perishable products worldwide.
Door to Door Services
With locations in eight states and network partners across the globe, CFI offers door to door services everywhere available. We make sure your cargo is covered, no matter where it needs to go.
Packaging & Sorting
To ensure product arrives in conformance from a temperature standpoint, we take into consideration the commodity, quantity, weight, transit time, global destination, airline refrigeration capacity and destination requirements.
Tracking Updates
CFI was the first company in the industry to offer 24 hours, 7 days a week coverage along with a full line of inbound, high humidity forced-air cooling, inventory temperature control and distribution services software including web access remote printing of all documents.
