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“The need for speed is on the ground”, and airlines need to facilitate communication across all parties during ground handling, especially for ecommerce shippers, delegates at this week’s Aviation Connect event in Istanbul heard. 

As global supply chains shift towards a consumer-driven B2C industry, speed-and-efficiency trumps ...

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  • John O\'Brien

    October 31, 2024 at 2:18 pm

    We are a global ecommerce logistics company and I can honestly tell you that the GHAs appointed by the airlines are a massive hindrance, the process is very straightforward: book, uplift on time, cross dock pallets from aircraft on arrival direct to forwarders bond or via that cross dock and avoid the delays, labour and handwritten notes and driver waiting times and all associated delays … which has been same process for past 50 years …. I can help just ask … John

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