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IATA airlines are working to “get the Alibaba stuff off the integrators and on to our planes,” believes Brendan Sullivan, the association’s manager for dangerous goods and training standards.

He told the Air Cargo Handling Conference at Milan’s Malpensa airport that the only way the mainstream air freight industry could succeed in this was by improving supply chain transparency.

Oliver Evans, chief cargo officer of Swiss International Air Lines and chairman of The International Air Cargo Association, said that despite their size ...