When a leading alcoholic beverage manufacturer in Mexico was facing supply chain issues, Air Charter Service stepped in to help with the delivery of more than 100 tons of hops from Germany, needed for the beer-making process.
Marco Circosta, ACS Mexico’s CEO, commented: “We were contacted by our freight forwarder customer in Mexico who’s client had seven of its breweries urgently requiring several tons of hops each for producing their beers. Their regular supply of hops comes from Germany, where there had been a wave of strikes in the weeks prior, meaning there was a huge backlog, which is why they required a whole charter.
“The hops needed to be in Mexico within four days of the customer first contacting us, so we quickly got to work sourcing a large enough aircraft, that was not only available, but could also obtain permits in the tight timeframe. An added consideration was that the temperature of the 136 pallets of hops had to be kept between 0 and 7 degrees Celsius throughout the operation.
“The six truckloads of cargo arrived at Liege Airport in Belgium, where the Boeing 747-400F that we had sourced was waiting. After the cargo was loaded onto the temperature controlled aircraft, it departed – via a fuel stop at New York’s JFK – for Felipe Ángeles International, just north of Mexico City, where it was met by refrigerated trucks and delivered well within the timeframe.”
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About Air Charter Service
Air Charter Service is a global aircraft charter broker with 35 offices worldwide, spanning all six major continents and we offer private jet, commercial airliner and cargo aircraft charters, as well as onboard courier solutions. We arrange over 28,000 charter flights annually with revenue of more than one billion dollars for the past four years. We were formed in 1990 by Chairman Chris Leach and CEO Justin Bowman in the basement of a house, and we now employ more than 600 staff worldwide.
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