Prime Air Corp.’s 24/7 integrated logistics solutions are strategic tools that allow for improving competitiveness and strengthening the production systems of manufacturing and medical devices plants. This is due to the fact that the 100% Puerto Rican company, a leading provider of world logistics services, helps streamline and expedite purchase orders, basically makes things easier as purchasers for their clients and generates added value in the supply chain, said Iris Vincent, president & co- founder of the company, which is the agent in Puerto Rico for U.S.-based Stevens Global Logistics.
“At Prime Air, we have managed to play a vital role in the purchase process of our clients to help them reach their organizational objectives,” said the head executive of the dynamic company that works 24 hours a day to provide flexible, tailor made solutions to address their clients’ needs. “As business allies, we focus in the search of added value and we identify opportunities of cost reduction in the supply chain process.” As a logistics services provider, Prime Air, which is experiencing growth at a fast pace, with 22 direct employees and 17 indirect employees, has the experience and knowledge in all issues and areas that can have a critical impact in an industry’s supply chain.
“Our experienced team at Prime Air has specialized in offering solutions in response to the constant and ever changing local and global challenges that can arise in the supply chain,” said Vincent. “This approach and focus has allowed the company to achieve a 20% annual growth rate in sales throughout the past five years.”
Prime Air involves itself in all facets of the supply chain: planning, implementing and controlling efficiently the flow of raw materials, equipment or machinery, finished products and all information related to these processes, from the point of origin anywhere in the world to their destination, satisfying and fulfilling the client’s requirements and needs. The company offers transport, warehousing and delivery of raw materials, machinery or equipment and products, to and from anywhere in the world.
Prime Air, which has specialized in the management of emergency services for the manufacturing industry, also provides a wide variety of services that include handling critical shipments, air and maritime freight around the world, transportation of sensitive cargo, refrigerated cargo, hazardous materials, as well as air- craft charters, with more than 40 types of aircraft available, ranging from Cessnas for small emergency deliveries, to the capacity to transport more than 500,000 pounds.
Prime Air also provides the On-Board Couriers service for the transportation of critical or sensitive cargo to and from Puerto Rico from anywhere in the world, the Next Day Flight service for 24/7 door-to-door delivery and the movement of heavy or excessively large cargo, refrigerated cargo and hazardous materials. Located at the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport, and with offices at the World Cargo Center, Prime Air has a 60,000-square-foot ware- house with the necessary infrastructure for any type of warehousing. Prime Air is certified as a critical industrial supplier under the regulations of Law 154 and is a member of National Minority Supplier Council, as well as certified as a women-owned business by the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council.