News / Schiphol AI-driven sorting improves ground handling speed and sustainability

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This month, Amsterdam Airport Schiphol has done away with conventional paper station declarations and made automated nomination, an AI-driven declarations procedure, mandatory.

Before its arrival, ground handlers would have to wait for freight to arrive before combing through paper documents to nominate a forwarder to handle a shipment.

Since October, Schiphol has been leveraging the new AI tool, developed by the Smart Cargo Mainport Program (SCMP) team, to nominate a forwarder for each shipment before the plane has landed.

Since then, 140 forwarders ...