Fed up with cargo congestion, freight forwarders flee O’Hare airport
Responsive service in Rockford attracts freighter operators to alternative Midwest gateway
0 25 8 minutes read Chicago O Hare freighter ramp. Airport warehouses are overrun with cargo, creating shipping delays for importers and exporters. (Photo: Flickr/formulanone CC BY 2.0)
Cargo congestion has gone from bad to worse at Chicago O’Hare International Airport, forcing importers to wait several days to retrieve shipments and prompting two large logistics companies to migrate airfreight operations an hour west to an uncrowded facility in Rockford, Illinois.
There is so much cargo piling up at O’Hare that airline-handling agents for the first time in memory are actually renting warehouses in surrounding townships to hold the overflow until it can be sorted for customer pickup, local trucking and logistics professionals say.
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