Last month Air Charter Service’s Mexican office was contacted by a leading alcoholic beverage manufacturer in Mexico.
The client was facing a brewery shut down and needed just over half a tonne of beer hops transported from Washington State to Mexico City – a journey of more than two and a half thousand miles, within the next 24 hours.
Marco Circosta, ACS Mexico’s chief executive, said: “We were contacted by our freight forwarder customer in Mexico whose client’s brewery urgently needed a delivery of hops to avoid a production line shut down.
“The hops needed to be in Mexico within 24 hours of the customer first contacting us, so we quickly got to work sourcing an aircraft and found a Falcon 20, that was available nearby and was easily loadable, as it had a side cargo door that could fit the 561kg load in on just one pallet.
“A complication was that, as the cargo was not traveling under refrigeration, we needed to co-ordinate with all relevant parties in order to minimise exposure to external conditions, by expediting the customs, loading and offloading processes.
“From initial phone call to completion of the charter was just under 20 hours, ensuring the production line could keep on running.”
