{"id":87720,"date":"2022-08-02T11:19:46","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T04:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/advantage.vn\/vi\/?p=87720"},"modified":"2022-08-20T15:16:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T08:16:21","slug":"airfreight-wholesaler-solent-launches-747f-flights-between-quito-and-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/advantage.vn\/en\/airfreight-wholesaler-solent-launches-747f-flights-between-quito-and-miami\/","title":{"rendered":"Airfreight wholesaler Solent launches 747F flights between Quito and Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Advantage Logistics<\/a><\/span>] US airfreight wholesaler Solent Freight Services is launching flights between Quito (UIO) and Miami this week, with a twice-a-week service for a year.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The flights, on a 747-400F, will depart on Wednesdays and Saturdays in response to demand for perishables.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the first new service between UIO and MIA in many years,\u201d said Gonzalo Mogollon, president of Solent Air in Latin America.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are launching flights due to demand in the floral, fresh cut flowers, fruits and perishables commodity industry,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The flights are being launched with Trans-Caribbean Cargo, a Miami-based charter company, using a SkyLease aircraft.<\/p>\n

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While there are some air freight services between Ecuador and Miami, there has been \u201cno new capacity in years\u201d said Simon Milne, Solent\u2019s CEO. \u201cEveryone in South America has been suffering due to a lack of capacity and very high rates, with aircraft being pulled for higher-revenue routes, such as Asia-US or intra-US.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rates, meanwhile, have begun to stabilise.<\/p>\n

\u201cRates have been by comparison historically high in the past 18 months, as the rest of the world has experienced, compared with pre-pandemic rates when perishables had historically low rates. But rates seem to be stabilising somewhat, due to capacity demand tapering off slightly,\u201d said Mr Milne.<\/p>\n

He added that Ecuador\u2019s 18 days of strikes last month had hurt exporters. Ecuador is also a large supplier of perishables to Russia and Eastern Europe \u2013 flowers are still moving to Russia, but demand from Eastern Europe has fallen.<\/p>\n

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However, capacity is starting to stabilise and return, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt may end up being too much capacity, for example in the southern cone. Santiago de Chile is an example with current overcapacity, with 11 weekly Atlas flights, six flights with Ethiopian, DHL has five flights and LATAM has multiple daily freighters, as well as Avianca freighters.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut we hope Ecuador, with this new flight, will be in a balanced position,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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