All Technology Articles – Page 52
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Accenture goes in with SaaS
Management consulting and technology firm Accenture has released a new version of its Air Cargo Suite and has made it available as software as a service (SaaS).It says that the package, which includes reservations, routing, price and operations functions can improve workflows and help reduce revenue leakage and is aimed ...
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Swiss WorldCargo to test drone technology
Swiss WorldCargo, Swiss Post and Matternet are teaming up to test the deployment of drones, including their potential use for internal logistics and the last mile delivery of small packages.The air cargo division of Swiss International Air Lines, the Swiss postal group and the US-based manufacturer of drone technology will ...
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Vertannes joins SmartKargo
IATA's ex-head of cargo, Des Vertannes, has joined air cargo software company SmartKargo as a strategic adviser.Vertannes, who now divides his time between UK and Portugal, was at IATA for four years and before that led airline cargo teams at British Airways, Air Canada, and Etihad, in a career spanning ...
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DB Schenker: How air cargo can be green
COMPANIES like to boast about what they are doing to combat climate change, but does it influence the way they design their supply chains? And what does that mean for air cargo? Will it inevitably always be seen as the bad boy for carbon emissions, or is there anything it ...
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Have you given paper the boot?
I HAVE absolutely no idea how many companies out there are totally ignorant of the urgent need to digitise their documents.If there are any – and remember, this is the airfreight business I’m talking about – here’s a brief word of warning: we’re in the age of technology, the age ...
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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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Emirates: Secondary connections, primary goals
It must be hard for the cargo team at Emirates to keep up with all the new destinations that are added to their network each year. Oslo, Stockholm, Boston, Chicago, Taipei, Kabul, Abidjan and Conakry have all had new Emirates services in the last eight months, and the carrier has ...
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Fifteen years of insights
IT IS now fifteen years since the Air Cargo News Interviews started (as the Peter Conway Interviews), the first being on 20 August 1999 with Klaus Herms, then chief executive (CEO) of Kuehne + Nagel, writes Peter Conway. Key topics in that interview included a frustration at not having one ...
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IAG Cargo: Making the tough decisions
With air cargo growth still sluggish, with the passenger business continuing to grow, and freighter operations being cut back, one could forgive mainstream airlines for attaching rather less importance to the cargo business than they used to.But is that in fact the case? One person well placed to answer that ...
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Electronic bookings with K+N
GLOBAL forwarder Kuehne + Nagel has introduced an online bookings and quotations service for its air cargo customers.KN FreightNet, described as a new integrated web application for quotations, booking and tracking services, recognises an ever-increasing trend towards the use of e-commerce solutions in industry, says the Switzerland-based logistics company.Currently, quotation ...
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UK forwarders oppose paper AWB surcharge
UK forwarders are opposing airline plans to implement a surcharge on paper air waybills that are not filed electronically.The British International Freight Association (BIFA), representing UK freight forwarders and logistics service providers, is encouraging its members to object to the surcharge via an online survey.The association’s director general, Robert Keen, ...
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CHAMP focus on small and medium size forwarders
CHAMP Cargosystems has created a subsidiary to offer its Logitude Software as a Service (SaaS) platform for the small and medium size forwarder communityThe subsidiary, CHAMP Forwarding Systems, will promote SaaS, which is already fully integrated with CHAMP’s information and message distribution platform: Traxon CargoHUBJohn Johnston, chief executive of CHAMP ...
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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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Seko invests in UK ecommerce agency amid online sales boom
GLOBAL forwarder SEKO Logistics has acquired an equity stake in UK ecommerce agency, Metakinetic, to capitalise on the growing number of online retail sales, writes Thelma Etim, deputy editor.Metakinetic will operate in tandem with another SEKO-owned company, Red Hot Penny, which specialises in end-to-end services for online retailers.Both agencies boast ...
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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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Handlers anxious to raise their profile
For a man who has just established his first foothold on a new continent, Olivier Bijaoui is surprisingly grumpy.The continent: South America. The ill temper: the president and CEO of WFS - the world’s largest cargo handling company, processing four million tonnes per year - believes air cargo handlers are ...
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United Cargo: A dutchman in America
Jan Krems may have just taken over as president cargo at United Airlines after a 27-year career with KLM (Air France-KLM since 2005), but he is no stranger either to the US or to the weather in his new Chicago base.He was for four years based in the Windy City ...
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Regulators and demanding customers force the pace on e-freight
Modal shift is occurring in part because of the air cargo industry’s snail-paced adoption of e-freight and reluctance to share data. Airlines and forwarders are looking after their own interests when they should be “protecting air freight as a mode,” according to James Fernandez, VP global commercial operations at technology ...
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CEVA joins the e-AWB 20% club
CEVA Logistics has joined the elite group of industry players to break through 20% penetration for e-air waybills (e-AWB) across its global business, with its September performance showing the fastest e-AWB growth of any logistics company.CEVA has now reached 20.4% penetration and is “well on target to meet the IATA ...
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FedEx: shake, rattle and roll for the perfect package
THERE’S a whole lot of shaking going on at Federal Express, plus a whole lot of heating, chilling and dropping.But it is all in the name of supply chain science, to design the best packaging for fragile and sensitive goods.FedEx TechConnect has opened a 30,000 sq ft package laboratory in ...