Air Freight Shipping
Meet deadlines and customer expectations with fast, reliable air freight services—including same day, airport to airport delivery—at all major hubs around the world.
- Keep your air freight moving consistently with daily departure schedules through our global carrier management program.
- Secure the space and scheduling you need—via cargo or passenger plane—through our carrier relationships.
- Find efficient, cost effective transportation strategies by working with our dedicated experts who oversee and optimize your entire logistics portfolio.
Global Solutions
Air Freight Solutions
Every supply chain has unique needs. Our comprehensive air freight services, global reach, and local knowledge give you customized, reliable air freight solutions based on your requirements to ensure your freight arrives at its destination as planned.
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Standard
Get capacity for items with flexible transit times. Standard air service offers reliability at economical rates.
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Premium
Enjoy the premium benefits of our defined air scheduling to ensure your freight arrives according to plan.
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Priority
Get it there fast—rely on our deep air carrier relationships to expedite your freight. Our investment in key air gateways is your advantage.
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Charter Services
When every minute counts, we’ll secure an aircraft to move your complex, oversized, and time sensitive freight at maximum speed with minimum hassle.
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Heavy Lift
Transport your heavy, overdimensional, and specialized freight safely with customized air shipping solutions. Our field experts have the specialized experience to coordinate every shipment with care.
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Multimodal
Combine the advantages of air freight and sea shipping—including faster transit times and steadier spend—with a streamlined, multimodal process under a unified bill of lading.
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Customs Brokerage & Trade Compliance
Maintain your speed advantage with our customs brokerage services to complement your air services. Work with our Trusted Advisor® experts to keep your imports and exports moving quickly through global air freight hubs.
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Marine Cargo Insurance
Safeguard your air freight from financial exposure, physical loss, and damage while in transit. Explore your policy choices—including transactional coverage and annual policies—to ensure your coverage matches your exposure risk.
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Testimonials
“From an air freight transport perspective, C.H. Robinson offered the most competitive cost option. And when it came to customs brokerage, it was the reporting and administrative capabilities that impressed us.”
Aldo Schepis
Director of Customer Support, Mazda AustraliaWhat sets our air freight services apart
Get more negotiating power with air freight carriers and access to capacity at a moment’s notice, even for your unplanned shipments, when you tap into our scale and expertise. Our supply chain experts around the world are up to date on local, regional, and global market conditions as well as the latest air freight trade lane conditions—they’re here to help you mitigate risk and maximize performance in today’s changing market.
We cover every angle with our global suite of services—including ocean shipping, air freight, customs brokerage, trade compliance, and surface transportation.
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Ocean shipping
Get competitive rates and reliable ocean freight capacity through our long-term carrier relationships. As one of the largest NVOCCs in the world, we have relationships with all major alliances. Your FCL and LCL/consolidated cargo sails reliably with carriers you can trust across major trade lanes.
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Truckload
Access reliable, consistent truckload capacity at competitive rates—we move the most truckload freight of any company in the world. Our truckload services make it easy to secure capacity and manage transportation costs.
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Customs brokerage and trade compliance
Keep your freight moving worldwide with less uncertainty and compliance risk. Work with our licensed, in-house brokers to clear shipments through customs quickly—and without extra costs.
Learn moreConnect your global supply chain with a single platform
Automate, optimize, and manage every aspect of the shipment lifecycle across multiple vendors with Navisphere®, our single, global, multimodal transportation management system. It’s a complete digital ecosystem that streamlines complexity and improves efficiency up and down your supply chain.
- Gain connectivity for every step of your shipment journey, from purchase order management and quoting to tracking and invoicing.
- Drive smarter solutions for your supply chain with an unmatched information advantage—you’ll have access to the most shipment, routing, and carrier data in the industry.
- Increase your speed and efficiency with capabilities in our system or in your own TMS or ERP—from bids to billing.
Get the latest global freight forwarding and market insights
Stay up to date with market changes that impact air and ocean capacity at the trade lane level—everything you need to navigate global shipping.