Perishables - National Airlines

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Who We serve

When every hours costs the cargo its value

Fresh cargo is worth the most the day it ships, and less with every hour after. A delayed flight means a lower price at market. A broken cool chain means a written-off shipment. A rough transfer bruises the crop and breaks the bloom. Cargo this perishable can’t wait its turn. National has flown it fresh for years.

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Growers and produce exporters

You harvest to a window and answer for fruit and vegetables that have to reach the market still at their best. National flies your crop direct and at temperature. The days it spends in transit don’t come out of its time on the shelf.

Flower and floriculture exporters

A cut flower starts fading the moment it’s picked. A bloom that arrives tired doesn’t sell. National moves floral cargo cold, gentle, and fast, holding the chain from farm to auction floor.

Seafood and fresh protein suppliers

You ship catch and product with a shelf life measured in days, sometimes hours. National flies seafood and protein at controlled temperatures, direct to the markets and kitchens waiting on it, sellable on arrival.

Perishable importers and distributors

You supply retailers and restaurants that expect fresh on the shelf and accept nothing less. National brings imported produce, flowers, and seafood in at peak condition, on the schedule your buyers hold you to.

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The national difference

Fresh when it ships. Still fresh when it lands.

Between the field and the market, freshness is the only thing that counts. The whole operation is built to protect it, from the temperature in the hold to the hands on the cargo.

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Direct, dedicated, and flown to your window

On a dedicated charter, the response shares the hold with nothing and waits on no one. The aircraft flies the mission’s routing, on the mission’s clock, into the airport the mission names.

The hold is set to the crop

Flowers, seafood, and stone fruit each live at their own temperature and humidity. National configures the aircraft environment to the commodity and holds the exact conditions the product needs from loading to offload, with the cool-chain discipline fresh cargo runs on and the monitoring to prove it held.

Handled like it’s alive, because it is

Perishable cargo bruises, crushes, and wilts when it’s treated like freight. National’s teams load, secure, and move it with the care that fresh product demands, gently and fast. What you grew or caught arrives in the condition it left.

Certified to the fresh-cargo standard

Perishable handling is only as good as the discipline behind it. National moves fresh cargo to IATA CEIV Fresh, the accreditation built specifically for the perishable cold chain, with temperature held and documented from acceptance to offload.

One team on the shipment, farm to market

A perishable movement has a dozen moving parts and no room for a handoff to drop one. A dedicated team plans the route, sets the conditions, clears the paperwork, and stays with your shipment from start to finish. Whatever the commodity needs, we build your service around it.

OUR GLOBAL NETWORK

Where it’s grown and where it’s sold

Fresh cargo moves from where it’s grown to where it’s sold, often continents apart. National operates across the Americas, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa, working through ground teams that handle perishable cargo fast and maintain its condition from the offloading ramp to the receiving door.

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Our Cargo Fleet

Every hour saved is shelf life earned

Wide-body freighters that hold the temperature your cargo lives at from loading to offload, moving produce, seafood, and flowers direct to market before the clock catches up.

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