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   Vol. 13 No. 99  
Tuesday December 9, 2014

Best In Show What Airports Can Do


Some leading international air cargo gateways were at Air Cargo Handling (ACH) Milano this past September.
Here we present Part Three of our exclusive series with a deeper look into the session content at ACH Milano. Part Three will be followed by in-depth analysis of TIACA Seoul held in October, and finally FIATA Istanbul held in November.

Giovanni Constantini, Sabine Petera and Nathan De Valck

     At ACH great thoughts were advanced detailing the role of airports in coordinating the cargo community.
     Participants included Sabine Petera, director cargo services, Vienna Airport; Nathan De Valck, cargo account manager, Brussels Airport Company; and Giovanni Constantini, cargo manager, SEA Milan Airports.
     Starting with Vienna, Sabine Petera told the audience that Vienna Airport had a throughput of 256,193 tons in 2013 with a mix of trucking and air cargo. There the focus is on speed with short acceptance deadlines for export cargo and competitive delivery times for import cargo. Vienna airport have built a computer system interface between Vienna Airport Cargo services and forwarding agents to enable the sharing of data.
     Vienna Airport allows direct access to apron for certain stakeholders, but strictly in accordance with EU directives. Meanwhile, projects include the development of infrastructure including Cargo City Sud (long term planning).
     The airport is ISO 9001 certified and has an internal system for monitoring quality and to support regular inspections by Austro control regarding dangerous goods.
     They hold regular coordination and information meetings with stakeholders, and topics include improvements, e-AWB, efficiency, flexible staff assignment, training (including security and safety) planning tools for cargo, and lean/simplified processes.
     Nathan then introduced Brussels Airport, voted cargo airport of the year in 2014.
     The objective is to develop BRUcargo as the preferred logistical hub with support for pharmaceuticals, time sensitive products, live animals, outsized cargo, perishables, valuables, and general cargo. Brussels airport acts as a facilitator and ensures stakeholders are more productive and able to contribute to the long-term future. 210 million euros is being spent on current infrastructure, including warehouse redevelopment and changes to office infrastructure. BRUcargo are able to bring stakeholders together to do business using neutral position. Furthermore, the secured gateway programme will make BRUcargo the most efficient and secure cargo area.
     BRUcargo are also developing a cloud solution to enable stakeholders to do business. They have also created a pharmaceutical certification programme with the objective of improving pharmaceutical handling. The programme will include audits of the stakeholders.
     Finally, Giovanni provided insight into Malpensa. Malpensa Airport takes on the role of coordinating the community, recognizing that this also includes engaging the public authorities and balancing different perspectives and needs. An investment of 70 million euros for urbanization works on the aircraft apron will help support the target to double freight handling from 500K tonnes to 1 million tonnes per year.      This will be further supported by an additional first line warehouse.
     Malpensa Airport has developed a cargo service charter with the aim to improve reliability and on time performance, e.g., cut off times for departing cargo times and for cargo availability after flight landing. They conduct quarterly meetings of the cargo-working group and canvass opinion through a customer satisfaction survey.
     In terms of facilitation, Malpensa Airport have lobbied Customs to activate single window procedure for customs and health procedures and are developing a common access platform for exchanging information aiming to simplify the access and information sharing between all parties.
     Additionally, a greater presence of Road Feeder Services in Northern Italy represents an opportunity to increase market share.
     It is great to see airports taking an active role in identifying and resolving issues, and even better to see them taking an active role in supplying solutions to unite the various stakeholders. If anyone can bring all parties together to do business, then the airport authorities can. We feel this level of participation benefits the entire supply chain and should be adopted elsewhere as well.
Geoffrey/Flossie

For Part I click here
For Part II click here


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