DHL, IATA Team Up For E-Freight Campaign
To lower costs, reduce carbon footprints and allow online track and trace functionality
DHL Global Forwarding has partnered with International Air Transport Association (IATA) as part of its global e-freight campaign. DHL has intended to take the paper out of air cargo by reducing the number of paper documents which needs to handle with every air cargo shipment. Of the 30 documents required, 16 are currently being replaced by electronic messages and the number will rise to 20 by 2010.
DHL Global Forwarding handles more than a third of all international forwarder-issued e-freight shipments worldwide and introduced e-freight shipments already in 21 countries, covering 108 Airport locations. It allows industries to reduce the paper trail and speed up transit times of airfreight shipments.
E-freight allows a shipment to be created by the manufacturer, transmitted to DHL Global Forwarding via EDI, processed, transmitted to the air carrier, to destination operations and to customs authorities, de-consolidated and cleared for delivery in a secure electronic environment, without the need to produce a single piece of paper.
The advantages includes lower costs, faster service, reliability and accuracy, better visibility in the online track on account of electronic documentation, which allows for online track and trace functionality. It also allows to reduce carbon footprint.
Michael Schaecher, global head air freight at DHL Global Forwarding, said: “This is a future-oriented project.We are fully aware that in five to six years' time the airfreight business will be very different from today, with electronic messages replacing the multiple handling of documents. E-freight offers major advantages for our organization, our service partners, our highly valued customers and, last but not least, the environment.”
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