Freight specialist A P Moller - Maersk (Maersk) has inaugurated a new 130,000 sq ft air freight import/export gateway near Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).
The new gateway that offers direct plane-side recovery with immediate unit load device (ULD) transfers. The west coast facility complements Maersk’s growing north American network of air cargo gateways, including Atlanta and Chicago which have been stood up in the last 12 months.
The new Los Angeles air hub positions Maersk for years of growth, the company said. LA is a self-managed air facility that has tripled Maersk’s access to capacity on the US West Coast.
The new facility is just 15 miles from LAX and less than nine miles from the Port of Long Beach. Site staffing will be in place for the conduct of customs brokerage, commercial sales, and freight operations. This site is a US Customs bonded Container Freight Station (CFS) and a US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Certified Cargo Screening Facility (CCSF). The facility is scheduled to attain Free Trade Zone status in 2024 to benefit from lower duties, reduced processing fees, and faster movement of goods.
The opening of the Los Angeles facility is the latest step in Maersk’s North American air freight capacity expansion programme that extends across strategic cargo entry points and is aligned to customer demand. The new capacity will deliver more supply chain integration opportunities and enable better scaling to care for seasonal peaks as well as market-driven volume spikes for breakout product launches, Maersk said.
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