{"id":2897,"date":"2021-03-18T19:56:46","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T18:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.airtimecritical.com\/transport-urgent-turquie-aerien"},"modified":"2026-05-21T13:19:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T12:19:26","slug":"turkey-urgent-air-freight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.airtimecritical.com\/en\/turkey-urgent-air-freight","title":{"rendered":"Automotive \u2013 Urgent transport from Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"

How to secure urgent shipments from Turkey<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

As a notable supplier of European equipment manufacturers, Turkey is an important player in the automotive industry<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

No fewer than 250 different suppliers have elected to locate their main factories in Gebze<\/strong>, Kocaeli<\/strong> or Bursa<\/strong>. Gebze is 1.5 hours away from Istanbul airport by road, while Bursa lies further south, 190km away or a 3-4 hour drive.<\/p>\n

Despite the current health crisis, Istanbul’s Atat\u00fcrk and G\u00f6k\u00e7en airports<\/strong> have remained among the busiest on the European continent, offering many flights to Europe, especially direct daily flights to Paris CDG in France.<\/p>\n

Urgent transport from Turkey? Air still has the edge<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Sea and road transport handle most of the cargo between Turkey and Europe. However, when business continuity is on the line, the speed and reliability of air transport (with direct and daily flights) represent significant advantages.<\/p>\n

Air Time Critical\u00ae<\/span><\/a> offers overnight door-to-door air deliveries between Turkey and France<\/strong>, as this 1,500kg shipment of three pallets of car parts from Bursa to northern France illustrates beautifully:<\/p>\n

The story in brief<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Departure from Bursa Friday afternoon at 17:30 local time; arrival at Paris CDG airport Saturday at 17:00; delivery at destination Monday morning at 05:00, in time for the first production shift.<\/p>\n

Turkey-France airfreight: The full story of an urgent delivery<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

The French customer, a major player in the automotive sector, contacted us<\/a> <\/span>on Friday at 11:00 to have parts flown in from Turkey that afternoon. Their French factory had to receive them by Monday morning to prevent a production stoppage<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The urgency stemmed from a quality issue identified with the parts received earlier in the week, which generated a high rate of rejects. The parts in stock were now unfit for production.<\/p>\n

The customer wanted to ensure business continuity by flying in enough parts to last through to mid-week. Further parts would follow via a less urgent channel with their regular forwarder.<\/p>\n

Urgent transport from Turkey \u2013 The challenges<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

We had to surmount a number of difficulties<\/strong> with this urgent shipment from Turkey. A significant one was that it was already 13:00 on a Friday in Turkey and the parts weren\u2019t quite ready yet. We also had to organise export procedures to get the parts to Istanbul airport that same day, from the Bursa supplier located a 3-hour drive away…<\/p>\n

A further difficulty was to ensure that the export procedure could be carried out that evening at Istanbul Atat\u00fcrk airport. This was the only way to deliver the cargo to the airline before Monday morning.<\/p>\n

Execution: Door-to-door delivery Turkey\u2013France<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n