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BIFA defends forwarders "tarred as being technology laggards"
British International Freight Association (BIFA) has defended forwarders "tarred as having a reputation as technology laggards".The defence follows yesterday's news that digital freight forwarder Beacon had secured $15m in fundraising from investors including Jeff Bezos, the founder and chief executive of Amazon, and US venture capital firm 8VC.In a press ...
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Jeff Bezos invests in digital forwarder Beacon
UK-based digital freight forwarding and supply chain finance company, Beacon has secured $15m in its Series A fundraising round, from investors including Jeff Bezos, the founder and chief executive of Amazon, and US venture capital firm 8VC.Beacon said the money raised in the Series A round will be invested in ...
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Kale Logistics offers free trial of air waybill processing tool
Kale Logistics is offering a free trial of its digital air waybill tool to help keep supply chains moving throughout the coronavirus pandemic.Cloud-based PING enables PDF air waybills to be converted into an application program interface (API), which can in turn save time, reduce the likelihood of human error when ...
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Ethiopian enhances services with cargo tracking app
Ethiopian Airlines has released a cargo tracking app for its cargo and logistics services customers.Features of the app, which is available on Android and iOS devices, include cargo tracking, updates and assistance from a chatbot, charter requests and flight schedule checks.Miretab Teklaye, director group integrated marketing communications at Ethiopian, commented: ...
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PayCargo enables payments in Canadian dollars in addition to USD
Digital cargo booking tool PayCargo has launched a dedicated Canadian Dollar online freight payment platform in Canada, enabling users to either pay in Canadian or US dollars after they have registered to both services.The Canada launch, part of ongoing growth and development plans by the Fintech company, was fast-tracked to ...
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DP World launches digital platform for multimodal cargo management
DP World has launched a new digital platform that will enable freight forwarders and shippers to manage cargo online at various points in the supply chain — be it utilising air, road or sea modes.DP World said the new tool represents "a major step forward in digitizing the management of ...
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How to streamline air cargo processing with Fintech
In the third of our ‘How To’ series, Lionel van der Walt, chief executive and president of the Americas at PayCargo, explores the benefits of utilising Fintech in the air cargo industryUntil fairly recently, the payment process in the air cargo industry was paper-based with manual processes and lengthy transaction ...
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NewsHow to embrace disruption in logistics in the digital age
Andrew JillingsIn the first of our 'How To' series, Tigers chief executive Andrew Jillings says that logistics companies should embrace disruption in the digital ageE-commerce logistics is a hot topic in the world of technology startups as digitalisation introduces opportunities for newcomers to enter the industry.For many traditional freight forwarders ...
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NewsFrankfurt pilots electronic DG declarations
Frankfurt Airport is piloting a scheme to digitise dangerous goods declarations through the INFr8 platform jointly developed with German software firm Dakosy.It told a seminar at Air Cargo Europe on 4 June that it was the first air cargo location worldwide to offer shippers and forwarders digitized dangerous goods processes ...
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NewsABC and CLA cargo.one deal puts freighter space online
AirBridgeCargo (ABC) and CargoLogicAir (CLA) say they have become the first all-cargo airlines to make their capacities available for digital booking with instant confirmation, following a deal signed with air cargo booking platform cargo.oneABC and CLA will market their capacities digitally to cargo.one’s customer base, which comprises hundreds of freight ...
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NewsNo hanging around for Lufthansa’s new tech
Lufthansa Cargo is offering its cargo customers self-service terminals and apps for mobile devices as well as the digital transfer of shipment data and status updates as part of its ‘eFreight’ drive to speed up acceptance times.Before delivery, a PreCheck service verifies the completeness and consistency of the data transferred ...
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NewsNew app brings order to the ULD world
ACL Airshop unveiled a FindMyULD mobile app at Air Cargo Europe on 4 June, claiming that it could save its customers days or even weeks in tracking down their assets.The ULD management firm’s real-time ULD control reporting capability is augmented with Bluetooth tracking through its three operations centres in Amsterdam, ...
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NewsIAG to offer electronic booking through Freightos
IAG Cargo is to offer its customers real-time electronic booking and pricing through a new partnership with software firm Freightos.At Air Cargo Europe in Munich, the carrier announced that WebCargo by Freightos has become the first live user of IAG Cargo’s digital application programming interfaces (APIs) which provide access to ...
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NewsCHAMP is automatic choice for Air Algérie
Air Algérie has signed up to CHAMP’s Traxon cargoHUB host-to-host automated data exchange system nto communicate with forwarders and other air cargo supply chain partners. The hub offers electronic access to over 100 airlines, 3,000 forwarders, operating from 9,000 branches worldwide, irrespective of their IT configuration or systems.The carrier’s general ...
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NewsNeutral Air Partner and HashMove launch consolidation portal
Global freight network Neutral Air Partner (NAP) and its airfreight wholesale sub-industry group, NAC Consolidators, have worked with technology company HashMove to develop a digital B2B neutral air cargo consolidation portal.A joint statement said that the NAC consolidation portal will be available "exclusively to freight forwarders and transport related companies ...
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NewsE-commerce and specialist products can 'cushion' air cargo in economic downturns
Glyn HughesGrowing e-commerce volumes and specialist high value products such as pharma and perishables provide a “cushion” and “in-built resilience” for air cargo in times of global economic downturns.IATA Cargo boss Glyn Hughes, speaking after the three-day World Cargo Symposium (WCS) in Singapore, said that there was a mood of ...
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NewsUnilode closer to digitalising its ULD fleet
Unilode has taken a major step towards digitalising its entire ULD fleet after developing an integrated digital solution in partnership with Palnet.The solution minimises the risk of damage or loss of the digital tag and does not obstruct daily operations or interfere with pallet stacking, say the companies.Unilode is a ...
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NewsGIV makes first eDGD declaration using Frankfurt's INFr8
Germany-based dangerous goods specialist GIV has sent its first digital shipment declaration via the eDGD portal INFr8 at Frankfurt Airport.Adem Yurt, managing director and dangerous goods safety advisor at GIV, said that he wanted his company “right from the start” to be involved in the pilot of the INFr8 portal."We ...
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NewsPanalpina introduces new digital portal
Panalpina has developed a new digital portal offering a wide range of instant and real-time services that it describes as “state-of-the-art”.Currently available to select customers by invitation only, it will be launched globally this summer.Customers will be able to manage their entire supply chain end-to-end with all their partners through ...