Book Onboard Couriers to Hand Carry Your Most Critical Shipments
Don’t let tight connections or documentation issues stand in the way of on-time delivery for your most crucial cargo.
When even next flight out services aren’t hands-on enough, consider hand delivery service via an onboard courier (called “hand carry,” for short).
Read on to learn more about R Express Int’s hand delivery services.
What is the hand-carry process?
After R Express INT schedules a pickup of your package, an R Express INT professional travels with your shipment in hand, ensuring speedy and safe transportation to the airport.
Rather than the 24- to 72-hour wait time of normal cargo, airports process hand-delivery shipments in the same manner as passenger luggage. Without delay, the onboard courier can walk through the airport and board and deplane the aircraft with hands on your shipment the entire time.
After your onboard courier arrives at the destination airport, a delivery vehicle immediately picks up your shipment and delivers it to its final destination.
What are the benefits of an onboard courier?
When booked as “cargo,” your shipments move through air freight facilities and spend their flight under the plane’s main deck as aircraft belly cargo. But with hand-carry shipments, speed reigns—and avoiding wait time is essential.
With hand delivery services via an onboard courier, your shipment will clear customs soon after arriving at the destination airport. By cutting out the more time-consuming steps of larger shipments, hand-carry services expedite the delivery of critical and time-sensitive products.
Using an onboard courier to transport products also helps maintain a constant, in-transit chain of custody throughout the lifecycle of a shipment, while adding a personal touch. In line-down situations and other high-stakes, urgent shipments, hand delivery service provides a dependable way to ensure your products arrive on time.
What types of shipments commonly travel by hand delivery service?
Urgent and high-value shipments from all types of industries benefit from the quick transport of hand carry service, from life sciences commodities to circuit boards, sensitive electronics and telecommunications devices, automotive parts, product samples, and more.
Air Charters
- Full and part charter
- Extensive core carrier relations
- Sensitive cargo, including government, aerospace, hazardous and high-value material
Sea Charters
- Service to all ports, including deep water and restricted areas
- Complete project management
- Full-service options for any vessel and storage type