An announcement has been made of the opening of a new daily nonstop flight for international freight traveling to and from San Jose International Airport.
From a press release issued by Fedex Express:
MIAMI (Florida) August 28, 2014 - FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) and the company of the world's largest express transportation today announced the arrival on 4 August of the first FedEx cargo plane Boeing Express- 757F- to Costa Rica in order to provide a direct service for international shipments. Formerly served by smaller aircraft, the growing Costa Rican market is being leveraged with increased capacity and the best collection schedules in the market, with next day delivery to Miami and the rest of the United States.
Comprehensive services such as International Trade: Freight, Shipping, Ports and multimodal Logistics.
Organization that operates in Honduras
Phone: (504) 2504 9641 - (504) 2504 9640
Amerijet International line will fly three times a week from Nicaragua to Florida from Tuesday 17th April.
Amerijet International, Inc. has announced a three times a week flight from Managua to Miami from Tuesday through its Vice President of Business Development, Pamela Rollins.
Between January and June, air cargo increased by 11% compared to the same period in 2010.
In the first half of the year a total of 29.9 million kilos was transported, 3.1 million kilos more than the 26.8 million in 2010.
An article in Prensalibre.com reports, "According to the Committee on Imports and Exports (CombexIm) when analysed by activities, air mail increased from 1.4 million kilos 2010 to 1.7 million in 2011, ie, 19.8 percent higher. In the case of general cargo, the increase was 1.5 million kilos, or 10 percent, up from 11.9 million kilos reported last year to 13.2 million this June. "
The air transport company has increased by 50% its cargo flight capacity to 19 weekly flights.
Guatemala, Nicaragua and Panama are three of the countries which receive large capacity UPS flights from Miami. UPS has decided to expand in response to increased demand experienced in Latin America.
By the end of 2010, imports, exports and package shipments increased 12% compared to 2009.
According to statistics given by the Committee on Import and Export (Combex Im), total imports were 28.3 million kilos in courier and general cargo and in the case of exports 28.6 million kilos were transported.
Between January and August, cargo movement increased 17.6% when compared to the same period of 2009.
The textile industry is responsible for 12 of these 17 percentage growth points, with tilapia and tobacco also contributing to the increase.
“Tobacco is mostly exported via airplane, mainly through Toncontin International Airport. Almost 50% of all goods shipped through this terminal is tobacco”, explained Allan Martínez, Swissport manager.
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