Up-to-the-minute Logistics presented a partnership settlement with ATC Aviation Services Crew – ATC Aviation Services Latin The US to be the Overall Sales and Provider Agent (GSSA) in Latin The US. This collaboration marks a valuable step in Up-to-the-minute’s global growth by extending the firm’s reach into contemporary markets, collectively with Chile, Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador and Uruguay.
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Up-to-the-minute Logistics’ engagement of ATC Aviation Services reinforces the firm’s two-stage technique for global growth initiated earlier this three hundred and sixty five days as it brings a excessive stage of journey within the air cargo sector whereas strengthening its global presence. The partnership will additionally be particular a seamless and more atmosphere pleasant constructed-in logistics operation for Up-to-the-minute’s purchasers.
The partnership with ATC firmly underpins Up-to-the-minute Logistics’ technique of expanding services to hitherto underserved markets, which has been vastly aided by the hot acquisition of two 737-800 cargo jets. Earlier this three hundred and sixty five days, Up-to-the-minute Logistics launched into a two-stage technique for global growth, the first piece taking verbalize in August 2024.
Over the final decade, Up-to-the-minute Logistics has grown to turn out to be the dominant cargo firm in Brazil’s logistics market and is the first and highest Brazilian firm devoted completely to cargo services. Up-to-the-minute Logistics is the highest cargo provider in Brazil that provides an constructed-in logistics mannequin to encourage purchasers, a key merit which has pushed the firm’s market share.
Having cemented its characteristic in Brazil’s immense logistics sector, the firm now seeks to materially prolong its logistics services sometime of South The US, leveraging its dominant industry characteristic to firmly put a market presence earlier than emerging competitors.
The firm’s initial piece of the growth of Up-to-the-minute’s service to Colombia, Ecuador, Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay. The second piece will goal Mexico and the US inner six to twelve
months. Said CEO Koga, “We can initiating with now not now not up to two weekly frequencies [for each route]. We are tranquil defining the days of the week. Via skill, it is 20 to 22 heaps per leg.”
Recent 737-800 airplane drive growth whereas increasing market share
These expansions are being supported by Up-to-the-minute Logistics’ acquisition of two 737-800 Boeing Transformed Freighters (BCFs) over the path of the previous three hundred and sixty five days which represents a valuable crimson meat up to its hasty of air cargo airplane. Up-to-the-minute Logistics obtained its first 737-800 BCF lifeless final three hundred and sixty five days, which marked the first 737-800 ever inner Brazil’s logistics industry. Going ahead, Up-to-the-minute Logistics appears to accomplish additional airplane for underserved regional airports as portion of its 5-three hundred and sixty five days conception. “Now we have alternatives for expanding our hasty. With global accreditation, we would be ready to accomplish two 737-800 NG airplane in three hundred and sixty five days,” said Koga.
The availability of the two “subsequent technology” (NG) airplane, a key milestone for the firm, will vastly enhance Up-to-the-minute Logistics’ capabilities in expanding into diversified Latin American markets, namely Argentina, Colombia, and Central The US, to boot to setting up a facility in Miami. For the first time, the greater and more atmosphere pleasant airplane will characteristic the firm to amplify market share internationally more with out distress.
An industry pioneer reshaping and reinventing logistics whereas propelling provide chains
Up-to-the-minute Logistics, founded in 2012, is an constructed-in logistics firm based totally in São Paulo, Brazil and is a pioneer within the development of a one-stop-store mannequin the usage of air freighters to give logistics services that are materially hastening provide chains at some stage within the country.
Each and each 737 NGs are leased by Babcock & Brown Plane Administration (BBAM) . The Next Generation of 737s are more value atmosphere pleasant by ton-miles transported and have a cargo skill approximately 10 p.c greater than the outdated technology of 737s. The airplane have handed certification by PCA Airworthiness and have obtained final approval by ANAC, Brazil’s aviation regulator.
Up-to-the-minute Logistics CEO Cristiano Koga said, “We are very desirous in regards to the addition of two developed airplane to our hasty. The additional skill and effectivity of the contemporary airplane will guarantee the long scamper success of the firm by hastening entry into global markets and better responding to the wants and necessities of our purchasers.”
Currently, Up-to-the-minute Logistics has two 737-800 NGs and two 737 Classics in its hasty. The introduction of the contemporary 737-800s is portion of a hasty renewal to enhance operational effectivity. Because the replacement of the prevailing hasty will occur step by step, the firm will operate both traditional 737s and NGs over the near term.
The incorporation of the contemporary 737-800s firmly areas Up-to-the-minute Logistics in a greater aggressive characteristic contained within the industry as the bulk of air logistic companies proceed to exercise older, less atmosphere pleasant 737’s which have been remodeled to freighters. Up-to-the-minute Logistics gives logistic services sometime of Brazil and is permitted by ANAC to encourage global destinations.
Mountainous firm infrastructure and skill give a boost to future enhance
Up-to-the-minute Logistics’ operations are supported by an enormous 32,000sf cargo facility at Viracopos, which will accommodate just a few cargo airplane simultaneously. The facility is supplied to meet risk management necessities for transporting excessive-value cargo at some stage in an array of segments, such as industrial, automotive, technology, clothes, electronics, and now prescription tablets. More now not too long within the past, a explicit distribution centre modified into opened at Viracopos, completely serving the pharmaceutical sector. The outlet of this DC makes Up-to-the-minute Logistics the first constructed-in logistics firm in Brazil to have, in a domestic terminal, its beget warehouse geared up per Anvisa’s necessities to encourage the pharmaceutical industry.
With an operation that ranges from ground transport with its beget and third-birthday celebration hasty to a high quality cargo and warehousing facility, Up-to-the-minute Logistics is effectively ready to encourage e-commerce within the “center mile” (with air and road transport from the distribution centres of excellent retailers;, the “final mile” (distribution centre to the client’s house); and the “first mile” (from the house to the centres). “Now we have already began working for e-commerce, and the expectation is that we are going to grow on this section any more,” says Koga.
Moreover its hasty of Boeing 737s, the firm has greater than 6,000 autos from authorized companions for ground operations. Via its seven distribution centres and cargo terminals, goods are efficiently directed to purchasers by the firm’s air and road network from its Viracopos operations base in Campinas, SP.
