Air cargo players must have trust and 'jump off the cliff' together, says Tiaca
Trust is the key to ensuring a joined-up air cargo industry; an integrated supply chain ...
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By Alex Lennane
Innovation, such as strategic alliances across the supply chain, and cost-efficient time-definite deliveries would boost the air cargo industry, delegates at TIACA’s professional development workshop heard recently.
Bringing stakeholders – from handling agents to airlines, from forwarders to GSAs – together enabled better collaboration in what is a fragmented industry, it was said.
“One of the ideas discussed was forming strategic alliances, which could give the industry a tremendous boost,” said Stan Wraight, executive director of SASI, which ran the course.
“Panalpina made ...
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Dave Ambridge
July 07, 2014 at 1:33 pmAlex
With the greatest of respect we have all been saying this for quite some time. As is usual with the Cargo Industry we are just very slow to act and move forward. COAG has been focused on this so it’s great to see TIACA focus on the same issue. I think we all know that it is the before and after Cargo Terminal part of the process where we lose the most time.
Cargo delivered 2 days ahead of the flight for example. Cargo not cleared at the weekend as the Agent and/or Customs are not working etc etc.
As a GHA we may have the Cargo for as little as 5-6 hours in the entire process. So where is the 6-8 days it actually takes?
The flying part is not the issue either so let’s see how we can reduce the average shipping time by 48 hours at least as IATA wants us to.
Joined up dialogue can certainly help.
rgds
John Parrott
July 07, 2014 at 3:51 pmOne such opportunity would be to utilize the liberal cargo transfer regulations that apply in Alaska to serve the Asia – North America lanes.
Ed Kerwin
July 07, 2014 at 6:02 pmThis is a great expansion of the discussion needed to re-energize the industry. Over the years, the air cargo industry has adapted to the market and found ways to provide value to its customers. Today the industry is facing a new environment that is creating challenges to profits and stresses to the perceived value of the air cargo mode. It would be interesting to hear more about the Panalpina service through Huntsville and their experience in that style of collaboration and the average transit times relative to the industry benchmarks. It seems to work for Panalpina, but then there doesn’t seem to be anyone else following that lead. In the end, I believe the industry will figure it out and reinvent itself, but how long that will take and what the cost will be is not clear,
Mahesh.AG
July 09, 2014 at 4:02 amIn India and the sub-continent the delays are basically due to many challenges like increased paperwork, unwanted customs formalities, delays, lack of infrastructure at airports.
The Indian cargo industry must resolve these constraints at the earliest. What is required is a collaborative effort to create a platform for introducing information & technology across the entire supply chain, use technology to create a combined initiative from all cargo industry stakeholders.