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IATA’s OneRecord will benefit the air cargo industry, but only if everyone is on board, delegates at last week’s World Cargo Summit heard.   

OneRecord is an IATA standard for data sharing that creates a single end-to-end record of a shipment, shared via a standardised API (application programming interface}, facilitating communication between air cargo stakeholders. 

Asked if OneRecord was “useful”, Stéphane Graber, director general of FIATA, said it was “a very difficult question”.  

“I will try to be politically correct here. I ...