'Everyone must be onboard' if IATA's OneRecord is to work
IATA’s OneRecord will benefit the air cargo industry, but only if everyone is on board, ...
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IATA has confirmed that it is developing simple ‘form-fill’ eAWBs for low-volume forwarders.
Speaking on the sidelines at last week’s FIATA World Congress in Taipei, Glyn Hughes, IATA Cargo chief, told The Loadstar: “We’ve been asked to look at something simple and low-tech because there’s a lot of highly sophisticated systems out there, but very few of them offer something affordable to the forwarder doing 10-15 shipments a week.
“So, because we have our CASS billing system – an online platform used ...
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Andreas Rohde
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