subject: What Do Nfo Shipments Entail? [print this page] Distribution logistics companies always have many different ways that they can make deliveries for their clients. Scheduled service, emergency service, next and same day deliveries and more combine to make up the timing structure within the industry. However, sometimes it can be difficult to find a shipping method which is going to be fast enough when you have to send something to the far side of the country or even the world. This is where NFO shipping comes into play in a large way.
When you are shipping NFO, you are using a type of shipment known as "Next Flight Out". This means that it is a shipping method which utilizes commercial airlines to make your delivery for you. By putting your shipment on a commercial airline, your courier can get your shipment almost anywhere in the world in a very short amount of time.
With NFO shipping though, you aren't just using airlines to ship your goods to their destination. A key element of these types of deliveries is that you are using the very next flight which is leaving that will ship your package to its destination. This results in deliveries which only take a few hours to ship a package anywhere in the country on most normal days where there is available room on flights and no weather delays. In addition, this is one of the fastest methods that you can use to ship internationally.
An important lesson to learn when you start venturing into the world of NFO couriers is that not all the companies who offer this service are created equally. In fact, many of them can get you faster final delivery times than their competitors can. They accomplish this in two ways. First, they make faster pickups, and second, they do business with more than one airport.
In large cities, there are often two accessible large airports. If you deal with a courier that uses both of them when scheduling their NFO service, you have access to a wider variety of flights. This provides a higher chance that you will find a quicker flight going to your destination. Quick pickup is also important. A courier that can respond and get your package to the airport quickly can often get your shipment aboard flights which other couriers might miss. This could represent a delay of hours depending on where you are shipping to and from.
