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| Vol. 15 No. 93 | Tuesday
December 6, 2016 |
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| Vital Views for December 6, 2016 |
To Earn 20 cents . . . John Champion, who headed Champion Transport Services in 1993 had a vital point to be made about cost: “Within the U.S.A., major carriers offer 20 cents per pound systemwide rates. If you get quite a good shipment it might even exceed the minimum charge. Imagine, since everything is through a hub, just the multiple processing, loading and unloading involved to earn 20 cents, let alone the actual carriage.”
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Shift
Of The Forwarder. . .In 2005 Daniel C.
Fernandez, secretary general, The International
Air Cargo Association, in a
broad discussion centered on dramatic changes
in the air freight industry, called attention
to the shift of the forwarder as a “rudimentary”
status to “quite another industry, more
aggressive, more technologically involved, more
formation-oriented.” Has
he seen improvement in airline-forwarder relations?
“Yes. The two are closer than they had
been in the past. The plain fact is that they
have been driven to recognize that they need
each other there is greater transparency. The
lack of a common platform was the lack of knowledge
of each other.”
Bar-Code
Technology Enhances The Air Transportation Process.
. .In
1994 Ted Braun, manager-cargo services development,
International Air Transport Association,
underscored a fact not to be overlooked: “In
the warehouse, at planeside—neither of
which is exactly an office-like environment—normally
poorly paid people continue to label boxes by
hand and read cargo labels at odd angles, in
bright sunshine, rainfall, or snowstorm. It
is here that it is ultimately determined whether
the last-minute shipment information stored
in a fault-tolerant computer is any good. Technology
is present to support various work processes,
and each application has its merit. In most
cases, solutions complement each other, so bar-code
technology enhances the air transportation process;
it does not replace, exclude, nor threaten EDI
. . . before we wrinkle the nose and dismiss
those boring low-tech barcodes, which every
halfway decent supermarket uses, consider what
this technology can bring the air cargo industry
by linking quality shipment information with
the shipment itself.”
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