AIT Utilizes Industry Connections and Flexes Network Muscle for International Project Cargo Delivery The Challenge: A prominent supply chain management provider specializing in cross trade operations for the aviation industry approached AIT’s New York City station to execute the delivery of a 7,258 kilo CF6-80 aircraft engine from Atlanta to Guangzhou, China. With a truck waiting to pick up the engine on a Friday afternoon, notification arrived that due to a clerical error on the supplier’s end, the engine had been attached to an aircraft for another customer. By the time a replacement engine was secured, it was late Saturday morning and AIT was asked to provide the hazmat declaration (or hazmat dec), a responsibility normally handled by the supplier. Due to flammable liquid in the engine,

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