News / Shippers welcome move toward greener air cargo and shorter transit time target

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Shippers have welcomed IATA’s recent initiative to standardise carbon footprint methodology, as well as its latest pledge towards cutting 48 hours off transit times.

But reliability and transparency are also key, Cindie Blackmer, manager transport contracts and negotiations for Intel, warned delegates at the World Cargo Symposium in Los Angeles.

“Talk of cutting two days off transit times by 2020? I like those kinds of numbers,” she told delegates, “and if you can do it cost-efficiently, at the same price? Now, you’ve ...