Hand-Carry Service (On Board Courier - OBC)
SOGMPS offers you its tailor-made "(On Board Courier) service to accompany your urgent, confidential or high added value shipments. Original contracts, call for bids or industrial spare parts, our air solutions are adapted to each of your emergencies. Our air guides intervene in Europe and all over the world in export as well as in import, for your parcels of small or medium size with high stakes.
What is the (Hand-Carry service)?
To meet your needs for shipping small, very urgent or very high value added parcels, the "On Board Courier - (OBC)" is certainly one of the most performing services. The "On Board Courier" service requires a high level of responsiveness, organization and experience. Indeed, in most cases the economic stakes are high and the hazards are numerous such as flight cancellation, problems of customs or visas, weight, contents or dimensions of the parcel(s)... SOGMPS teams are trained to anticipate and react swiftly to these unforeseen events.
The "On Board Courier" service is available in many names like accompanied luggage, the "hand carry courier service" or "OBC service". It is very popular with industrialists to overcome, in particular, a production line stoppage or by companies from all sectors to send calls for tenders or original letters of great importance.
SOGMPS and its OBC global network of partners provide you with collaborators who take care of your parcels and hand them directly to the recipient by hand. Our operational teams organize each transit stage to carry out its sensitive missions.
Namely, pre-routing your parcel to the nearest airport for delivery to our air conveyor, booking the fastest or most suitable flight, a delivery by hand to your consignee, the destination airport or on the delivery site. A follow-up is carried out at each step of the transport by mail or telephone. Depending on the size and weight of the parcel. There are two types of " Cabin" or "Cargo" Hand-Carry.
Hand-Carry cabin service
The "Hand-Carry Cabin" is a tailor-made service for your small, very urgent and very important shipments. We accompany your urgent shipments directly on the plane all over Europe and in the rest of the world (subject to visa). Our service "Hand-Carry plane" or "Parcel accompanied plane" delivers your small shipments over Europe in an extremely short time limit, generally in the order of 3 to 5 hours after the removal by the bias of a dedicated air conveyor that accompanies your urgent parcels in the plane.
Your shipment is picked up soon after your phone call or at a scheduled emergency), and is handed over at the airport to one of our conveyors escorting it to the final consignee. This air support is carried out exclusively in the cabin for parcels whose weight and size allow it < ( 55 × 35 × 20) cm and < 10 kg.
This "Hand-Carry" service simplifies customs procedures and allows delivery of your parcels by hand in record times. We offer you creative solutions and a tailor-made transport in accordance with the concluded agreements. Dock waiting ship for documents or industrial spare parts of small volume...are the triggering operations configuration of "Hand-Carry".
Hand-Carry Cargo service
The "Hand-Carry cargo" is a tailored service for your medium, very urgent and very important shipments.
Our "cargo accompanied parcels" allows us to make larger shipments than those accompanied in cabin. An air attendant accompanies your parcels during flight and recovers them at arrival in "luggage" mode, not in "freight" mode. Your shipments are returned in the hold "Baggage" and recovered from the arrival of the flight and conveyed immediately to your ultimate destination. kg This service is limited to 200 kg per shipment and 32 max per parcel; as for parcels of limited dimensions ( sum of the 3 dimensions < 158 cm in general).
How to well prepare to successfully handle one's On Board Courier (OBC)?
The preparation of the OBC shipment
It is essential for our operational pole, before departure, to have all the necessary information for the smooth running of the operation. We will systematically ask you for the exact weight and dimensions of your parcels as well as the precise removal and delivery contracts. A person from your company will also have to remain reachable in case of a major problem.
If your shipment concerns several parcels destined to travel in the hold, their conditioning will have to be done with care because they will have to undergo some manipulations on the part of the airport staff... Our operators will accompany you in case you have questions about optimizing your packaging.
If it is a small parcel weighing less than 8 kg and of restricted dimensions, its conditioning will be less important because it will be sent in cabin by our agent.
Customs Formalities Management
In the case of an import or an export outside the borders of Morocco, you will have to tell us the contact and the coordinates of your "departure forwarder" and the customs clearance agency at the airport of destination. You will sign a customs clearance order and transmit to your forwarding agent the invoice and the "HS" code of the parcels to be exported. This way, you will avoid any delay risk that would be related to customs aspects. Your forwarder will provide you with all relevant information depending on the countries of departure, arrival and transit.
In most cases, the destination company of your urgent parcels is used to working with the forwarding agents of its or their airports service. The easiest way to save time on arrival, particularly in the case of industrial spare parts, is then that a representative of the recipient manages the formalities of customs clearance of the parcel directly at the airport of destination.
Advantages of the "On Board Courier Service"
- A "door to door" service.
- A service with a high level of reliability.
- A service adapted to distances of more than 600 km.
- The support of our national and European network specialized in emergency and tailor-made.
- A written quotation upon simple request.
