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> I'm under the impression that stuff small and valuable like iPhones are transported by plane That's not how freight works.
by reitoei 11y ago
> I'm under the impression that stuff small and valuable like iPhones are transported by plane
That's not how freight works.
- hollerith 11y agoAre you sure? When we ordered an iPad from Apple in 2011, it got handed to one of the big delivery companies (FedEx?) in China, then got put on a plane to the US.
- culturestate 11y agoiPhones and iPads aren't really great examples in this space, because they're often sold before they even come off the assembly line. Apple chooses air freight for (many of) its products simply because that's the most efficient way to operate its particular supply chain.
- reitoei 11y ago'Freight' generally implies the bulk transportation of large quantities of goods. When you said 'small stuff', I didn't realize you meant small quantities of stuff.
- reitoei 11y agoMea culpa, you're right, they do ship mostly using air freight.
- Nimitz14 11y agoI'm no expert on the subject, but the term 'air freight' does exist, as well as many articles discussing the pros and cons of transporting cargo by air vs by sea. Google it.
- SixSigma 11y agoFedEx ships Apple handsets to the U.S. mainly using Boeing 777s [1] Jan 2015 saw 17 billion Air Freight Kilometers available but with utilisation running at about 46% - most routes only have freight used one way [2] [1] http://www.macrumors.com/2013/09/11/how-apple-ships-millions-of-iphones-for-simultaneous-delivery/ http://www.macrumors.com/2013/09/11/how-apple-ships-millions... [2] http://www.iata.org/whatwedo/Documents/economics/freight-analysis-jan-2015.pdf http://www.iata.org/whatwedo/Documents/economics/freight-ana...