Air cargo can consist of all kinds of goods and items: high-volume goods; urgent goods; mail; spare parts for land vehicles; spare parts for the aerospace industry; baggage and cargo; materials for fairs or other events; perishable goods; pharmaceutical products, vaccines or drugs; luxury goods; artworks; machinery; and even live animals. When handling materials and other cargo, logistics teams must consider a number of potential hazards, such as:
- cargo shifts;
- loading cargo in a way that causes the cargo to be outside the centre of gravity or weight limits, which can result in damage or loss of control of the aircraft;
- dangerous goods in the cargo they may not be aware of;
- the general weight of the cargo and how to load or unload it safely;
- the use of any vehicles in loading and the safety of anyone in the surrounding area.
It’s important for any logistics team, whether working with air cargo or any other cargo, to know as much about the loads as possible. This can help them prepare to load the cargo or unload it as safely as possible.
The flexible design of modular rollerbeds makes it easy to set them up in a facility or in a vehicle. From there, the professionals responsible for loading and unloading cargo can perform the process more safely and more efficiently. Modular rollerbeds remove forklift trucks from loading so that the process is safer and not as many employees are necessary in transferring the cargo to wherever it needs to be.