The Acceleration of the Aviation & Aerospace Industry

As the Aviation & Aerospace industry navigates forward, progressive mature entities comprising Airlines, Aerospace Manufacturers, OEMs, and MROs (Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul), as well as start-up companies in Aviation and Aerospace, are constantly evaluating opportunities to expand operations or to venture into greenfield deployments. This could encompass the following range of new capabilities deployment as part of a greenfield setup plan or an expansion plan of the existing capabilities such as the following:

1. Site relocation and deployment of capital equipment for manufacturing aerospace products.
2. Operating infrastructure such as aerobridges in airports, airline station equipping, and Vertiports for the Urban Air Mobility (UAM) or Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) segments.
3. Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul (MRO) capabilities comprising capital equipment deployment e.g., an engine test cell setup, new avionics test stations, etc.
4. Capital Equipment deployment for the airports on the airside or landside.

Expeditors has the expertise and experience comprising?Aviation Industry Leaders ?as well as our?Project & Energy Services (PES) ?division in our network, to jointly enable a "one-stop shop" project management logistics service for our customers in the Aviation and Aerospace industry. This is a differentiated service offering that speaks to the mission and time-critical high-value cargo project management coupled with highly customized freight solutions and executions.?

Read the full article to learn how Expeditors helped a global aviation and aerospace Tier 1 manufacturer relocate their production lines from Indonesia to Malaysia.

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