All IATA Articles – Page 22
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UPDATE: European shippers want lithium battery solutions not bans
European shippers would like to see new solutions developed to increase the safety of transporting lithium-ion batteries by air rather than blanket bans that stop them being flown at all.Speaking just days after Boeing sent an advisory out to airline customers recommending carriers no longer transport lithium-ion batteries as bellyhold ...
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Air cargo needs a technology manifesto for change
Air cargo must abandon inefficient, expensive, out-of-date technology in favour of web-based solutions and e-freight, according to John DeBenedette.The managing director of WIN, the online platform for independent forwarders, has challenged airfreight bosses to adopt a technology manifesto for change.Speaking at IATA’s e-cargo conference and workshop in Geneva, DeBenedette called ...
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IATA pushes for trade facilitation
Air cargo will be a key beneficiary of an initiative looking to support developing countries implement the World Trade Organization (WTO) trade facilitation agreement.IATA and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen their support for the WTO agreement that could ...
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CAL joins pharma programme
CAL Group has joined IATA's Center of Excellence for Independent Validators Pharmaceutical Logistics programme (CEIV Pharma).Once completed, CAL states that it will be the first group to have a certified pharmaceutical logistics programme.Israel-headquartered CAL Group – specialising in temperature-controlled and pharma goods - includes freighter carrier CAL Cargo Airlines, LACHS ...
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WCS: Airfreight volumes, a Chinese puzzle
It is a truth universally acknowledged that if China sneezes, the rest of the world will catch a cold, writes Martin Roebuck.The airfreight world may need to keep aspirin on standby for the rest of this year, analyst Gert-Jan Jansen, head of Seabury Cargo Advisory, warned delegates at the World ...
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UPS extends pharma network
UPS customers can now ship biological substances, dangerous goods in excepted quantities and shipments using dry ice to more than 20 additional international destinations.The US-based global express and logistics’ operator says that the expansion is a direct response to a growing demand from biopharmaceutical manufacturers, diagnostics companies, laboratories and distributors.“The ...
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2014 'a challenging year for air cargo'
GLOBAL air cargo grew by only 1.4 per cent last year as the whole industry fought its way out of a world recession.IATA figures show that cargo markets made very slow progress during the first half of the year, but acceleration took root in the latter half of 2013, eventually ...
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SATS gets IATA pharma seal of approval
SINGAPORE Airport Terminal Services’ (SATS) perishables handling facility has become the world’s first centre of excellence in pharmaceuticals handling, as certified by IATA.SATS Coolport was set up to cater for high growth in pharmaceuticals airfreight at Changi airport. Last year it handled more than 15,200 tonnes of pharmaceuticals.IATA certification gives ...
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Edging towards e-freight
IF you have the idea that targets for the IATA e-freight programme keep slipping, you are not wrong.At the 2010 Air Cargo Forum the expectation was that the whole air cargo industry would be paperless by 2014, but the target IATA now has is for 22 per cent of feasible ...
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The cost of modal shift
MODAL SHIFT to ocean and other surface freight has cost the air cargo industry almost two percentage points of annual growth since 2000.The problem is set to continue at a moderate pace, says a report conducted by research firm Seabury Group and IATA.It reveals that airfreight’s share of total global ...
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IATA cargo boss Des Vertannes stepping down in June
DES VERTANNES, head of cargo at IATA, is retiring from his position in June.A universally popular and hard-working professional, Vertannes is stepping down to spend more time with his family.Under his leadership, IATA’s cargo division has been responsible for numerous significant advancements, including the widespread adoption of new security regimes, ...
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CHAMP: A man with all the right connections
THE PAST year has been a busy one for CHAMP Cargo-systems and the next one looks to be no less busy. For a business that is continually urging modernisation and change on others, one cannot accuse the IT company of shirking it itself.Successful ticks on the 2013 to-do list of ...
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Glyn Hughes new IATA cargo chief
IATA has appointed Glyn Hughes as its global head of cargo, replacing the retiring Des Vertannes.Hughes joined IATA in 1991 to enhance and expand the Cargo Accounts Settlement Service (CASS), growing it from 35 to nearly 100 operations, while maintaining very low levels of agency default and decreasing overall operating ...
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IATA: Speaking out for air cargo’s global image
IT BEGGARS belief that an industry vital to international trade remains so invisible to the rest of the world, writes Thelma Etim, deputy editor.This may be one of the reasons why the air cargo industry has been allowed to operate in a technological time-warp for so long, while other industry ...
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More forwarders sign IATA’s e-AWB agreement
A TOTAL of 1,205 forwarders have now signed the International Air Transportation Association’s (IATA) ground-breaking multilateral e-AWB agreement, writes Thelma Etim, deputy editor.The single standard document allows shipments information to be exchanged electronically, rather than being accompanied by paper airwaybills.The number of airlines who have signed the agreement remains at ...
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More than 1,300 forwarders sign IATA’s e-AWB agreement
A TOTAL of 1,316 forwarders have now signed the International Air Transportation Association’s (IATA) multilateral e-AWB agreement, writes Thelma Etim, deputy editor.The single standard document allows shipment information to be exchanged electronically, rather than being accompanied by paper airwaybills.But the number of airlines signed up to the agreement remains at ...
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Is shipment consolidation the big barrier to cutting transit times?
DOING the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome is a clear sign of madness, it is said. Exposure to the air cargo industry’s disjointed processes only endorses that aphorism, writes Thelma Etim, deputy editor.With the industry’s golden era long gone, and despite the e-commerce boom, ...
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eAWB take-up hits its stride
August set the record for the fastest month for e-AWB growth, at 2% globally. Adoption speed is now four times that of the same period last year. There are now 20 airlines that have achieved over 20% e-AWB penetration, compared with only seven at the start of the year. Airports ...
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Top five sign roadmap to combat cybercrime
Five major international aviation organisations have agreed a “common roadmap” to combat attacks from hackers and other cyber criminals.The group is made up of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Airports Council International (ACI), the Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation (CANSO), the International Air Transport Association (IATA) and the International ...
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Support grows for Hong Kong's self-funded third runway
Cathay Pacific Airways has reiterated its “unequivocal support” for a third runway at Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA), the world's top cargo hub, believing that the project can be self-funded.Cathay Pacific chief executive Ivan Chu said: “There is an urgent need to move ahead with the third runway project as ...