Air freight to and from Lebanon
For cargo that cannot wait for a sailing. Booked on a flight, collected at your supplier if it needs collecting, and cleared in Lebanon by our own brokers.
Air costs more than sea and takes a fraction of the time, so it tends to be the answer for a part that has stopped a line, for a short consignment, for goods worth considerably more than the freight on them, and for anything that has to be here before the next vessel would even sail.
It is booked the same way a container is. You tell us what is moving, what it weighs and where it is sitting; we come back with what it costs by air, and by sea if the comparison is worth having.
The ends of the journey are handled the same way too — Ex-Works collection at the supplier, clearing in Lebanon by our own brokers, and inland haulage onward.
What an air shipment includes
- Air freight
- When the sailing schedule will not do.
- Ex-Works
- Collected at your supplier, taken to the airport.
- Customs clearing
- Cleared in Lebanon by our own brokers.
- Trucking
- Inland haulage once it has landed.
- Cargo insurance
- Fire, water damage and total loss.
- Export & cross shipments
- Outbound, or between two other countries.
Air or sea
Sea is priced on the container or the volume you take inside one; air is priced on weight and volume together. That single difference decides most shipments: dense, heavy and patient goes by sea, light, small or urgent goes by air.
The comparison is worth doing properly rather than by instinct, because the freight is only part of the cost — a slow shipment ties up money for as long as it is at sea, and a fast one does not.
Ask for both and we will quote both. It is the same packing list either way.
Questions
The four we are asked most often about flying cargo in.
- Is air freight only for small shipments?
- No. Air is priced on weight and volume, which is why smaller and urgent consignments end up there most often, but there is no fixed ceiling. Tell us what is moving and we can price it both by air and by sea.
- Can you collect the goods from my supplier and fly them?
- Yes, under Ex-Works. We arrange the inland leg from your supplier to the airport of departure and see the papers authenticated in the country of origin.
- Do you clear air shipments in Lebanon?
- Yes. An air shipment is cleared by the same brokers of ours who clear a container, and inland haulage onward is handled by us too.
- What do you need to quote an air shipment?
- A packing list is usually enough to start — what the goods are, their weight and their dimensions. Send it on WhatsApp or by e-mail.
The rest of what we do
Air is one lane of several. The same desks handle the others.
Tell us what you are moving.
A packing list is usually enough to start.