News / Time for all air cargo forwarders to move into the digital age – or 'shipments simply won't fly'

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Medium and small air cargo forwarders must embrace digitisation in advance of new regulations, TIACA has warned – otherwise, it says, shipments simply “won’t fly”.

Doug Brittin, secretary general of the air cargo association, said: “If there are SMEs still in the manual world, it is not going to work. At the very least they should think about getting data to the carrier electronically.”

He said ground handlers would also need to be “up to speed on the data”, adding: “But the biggest onus will be ...