News / 'Mired in paper, air cargo will lose out on billions e-freight technology can offer'

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Unless companies fully embrace – and even leapfrog – e-freight technologies, the air cargo industry will fall further behind and lose out, delegates were warned last week at the Freighters and Belly World conference in Budapest.

Guillaume Drucy (pictured), head of e-freight for IATA, pointed to Uber, the new taxi service loved by customers and hated by rivals. A technology rather than a cab company, it connects customers with drivers – but that is only the start of the ambitious company’s ...