Swiss WorldCargo - Air cargo division of SWISS

With warm weather and summer in full swing in Switzerland, we would like to introduce our recently established Re-icing Add-on Service. The Add-on is available for your SWISS General Cargo, SWISS Pharma & Healthcare, and SWISS Perishables shipments cooled with dry ice and transiting through Zurich. With tailored solutions, the Re-icing Service ensures your temperature-sensitive shipment is transported under optimal conditions based on your requirements.   See more benefits of our service below.

Air cargo is a reliable, fast, and safe way to ship freight worldwide, which makes it strategically important for global trade. Fit to meet today’s demands in a fast-paced, interconnected world, shipping goods via the air is often utilized for expedited freight, high-value, or time-sensitive consignments like pharmaceuticals and perishables. Especially also during times of emergencies or crises, a rapid response and timely delivery of critical supplies can often only be ensured via air freight. Read more about the importance of air freight for global supply chains in our cargo story here: https://lnkd.in/dNQntv3v

As vacation time is beginning in Switzerland, the season of sending holiday postcards and packages from your summer destinations around the world is back. ☀🌴 Swiss WorldCargo ensures the smooth transportation of your mail across the globe. Our extensive logistics network and deep expertise position us as an efficient and trustworthy carrier of your goods. Letters and parcels are handled with absolute discretion by highly skilled and trained personnel at our Zurich hub’s dedicated mail handling facilities. With our comprehensive range of services, we are able to offer flexible and tailor-made solutions that meet the industry’s quality standards. Our customers receive real-time updates to track their mail’s journey and access to uniquely short transfer times at Zurich and Geneva to make sure that the holiday messages arrive at their destination in a timely manner. 📬 Read more about the heartwarming tradition of spreading joy through sending postcards and packages and how Swiss WorldCargo takes care of your mail to your loved ones in our cargo story here: https://lnkd.in/e8sB7ntG. Swiss WorldCargo wishes you a wonderful and exciting vacation time this summer. ⛱

Our Swiss WorldCargo Dangerous Goods expert Patrick Ehrensperger was recently featured in the SWISS video series “Ask the Expert”. He shed light on the particularities of transporting batteries, rechargeable batteries or power banks on passenger aircraft. Due to potential safety hazards caused by loose batteries, they must always be stored in the passengers’ carry-on baggage. When it comes to cargo, we can transport devices with batteries as cargo consignments in line with Dangerous Goods regulations. Our SWISS Vulnerables Product offers tailored solutions for transporting Electronics and High-Tech Products. Combined with the Transportation Solution Dangerous Goods, the necessary precautions can be taken to ensure the safe and compliant shipment of our customers’ sensitive electronics. Our skilled personnel are trained to handle dangerous and sensitive goods and enhanced security measures are implemented for every step of the shipment’s way. See in the video below how Patrick elaborates on the risks of transporting loose batteries in checked baggage, what is important in case of emergencies with batteries, and the processes employed to detect them in the passengers’ baggage.

We are expanding our Direct Delivery Add-on Service to the United States. Direct Delivery, already available in Europe at our ZRH hub, is now also accessible via the following strategic gateways in the United States: JKF, EWR, BOS, IAD, MIA, TPA, LAX, SFO, ORD. The service is bookable with our Products SWISS General Cargo, SWISS Pharma & Healthcare, and SWISS Perishables.  Choosing Direct Delivery ensures precise handling and careful transportation of your freight on our extensive truck network directly to your warehouse. Our team leverages a robust RFS network with temperature control for unmatched efficiency and care. See below for more reasons why you should choose Direct Delivery for your shipments.

SWISS earns quality seal for its sustainable business management 🌎 🍃 📋 SWISS’s environmental management system for the 2023 reporting year has secured the company its first-ever validation under Europe’s #EMAS provisions. 🛫 As a result, SWISS has also earned the international ISO 14001 certification for environmental management systems. In the context of the same, SWISS will now be publishing an annual environmental report to help further underline its commitment to sustainable and responsible business management. 📓 The SWISS 2023 Environmental Report presents extensive key corporate, transport and environmental facts and figures.

In collaboration with Climeworks, we incorporated their direct air capture (DAC) technology into our Green Choice Add-on as of last week. The now available premium option ‘Aviation Tech Pioneer’ combines 20% CO₂ removal through direct air capture and 80% reduction achieved by the use of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF). 🌍✈ As Climeworks’ DAC technology has emerged as a key technique to foster emissions removal and fight climate change, we want to look into it a bit further and explain how it works. As shown in the graphic below, the ambient air is drawn into a collector by a fan where a filter captures the CO₂. Once the filter is filled with CO₂, the collector closes, and the temperature is increased to around 100°C. In this process, the carbon dioxide is extracted and stored underground, where it turns to stone within two years. The CO₂-filtered air is released back into the atmosphere. We are proud to offer our Swiss WorldCargo customers this pioneering option that will foster innovation to create a more sustainable future for the air cargo industry and advance us further in achieving our carbon emission mitigation goals. 

We are excited to announce the launch of our new high-quality carbon removal offer in collaboration with Climeworks. Their direct air capture (DAC) technology is one of the key technological solutions to fight climate change. It captures CO₂ directly from the air, reducing the atmospheric concentration of CO₂. The carbon dioxide is safely stored underground by turning it into stone through natural processes. The partnership with the Swiss-based globally leading company in offering carbon removal services, enables the enhancement of our Green Choice Add-on Service with a new premium offering called ‘Aviation Tech Pioneer’. On the AWB level as well as in bulk, customers can now select combinations of direct air capture and Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF) for their shipments. This makes us the first air cargo carrier to incorporate pioneering, high-quality technological solutions to decarbonize aviation. As sustainability is a core aspect of our operations, this collaboration underlines our dedication to create a more sustainable future for the air cargo industry. It acknowledges the importance of accelerating key technologies by establishing partnerships that drive sustainability initiatives forward. Choose our offer ‘Aviation Tech Pioneer’ and support the scale-up of carbon removal technologies while getting closer to reaching your scope 3 emission reduction targets. Become the next Aviation Tech Pioneer! ✈

Join Swiss WorldCargo at LogiPharma Asia, taking place on 19-20 June at the Equarius Hotel Singapore. The leading pharmaceutical supply chain event presents a great opportunity to connect with global experts, and exchange ideas on topics like sustainability, resilience, and risk management within the pharmaceutical industry. 💉💊 Attend the event to explore the latest innovations and developments inside the pharmaceutical field, and meet us at table E, which we share with Lufthansa Cargo and time:matters.

Meet us at transport logistic China 2024, taking place on 25 – 27 June in Shanghai. Visit us at our Booth 311 in Hall W5 of the Shanghai New International Expo Centre to connect and exchange ideas. As Asia’s leading exhibition in the field of logistics and transportation, it presents a great opportunity to meet important decision makers from all over the world and explore the latest trends in logistics, mobility, IT, and supply chain management. The conference program featuring an air cargo forum provides the framework for engaging discussions on industry developments.