The second IATA World Cargo Symposium, held in Rome on 3 - 6 March 2008.
During the concluding plenary, Aleks Popovich, IATA's Global Head of Cargo, outlined a series of commitments for 2008 arising from the work of the World Cargo Symposium. Click here to view the complete presentation.
Key commitments for 2008 included the following:
Customer
Continue customer dialogue and engagement via:
- A customer forum within the Cargo Executive Summit focused on the industry agenda
- Annual customer feedback process
- Engagement of customers in formulating e-freight document standards
e-freight
- Secure the e-freight product, and produce a tried and tested e-freight industry handbook, enabling wider rollout
- Deliver e-freight product capability in eight additional locations giving network connectivity to existing pilots
- Focus the Message Improvement programme on root cause analysis enabling significant improvement in data quality within e-freight locations
Cargo 2000
- Rollout Q Cargo, enabling small- to medium-size forwarders to participate
- Deliver 85% penetration of Cargo 2000 amongst existing Cargo 2000 members
- Engage customers and FIATA in Cargo 2000
Secure Freight
- Build a long-term vision and road map for 100% secure operators on secure trade-lanes
- Define the basic supply chain integrity system
- Deliver a pilot voluntary audit of secure operators
Environment
- Build a set of facts plus supporting research for access by air cargo key decision makers
- Communicate a position on air cargo and the environment
- Deliver a project to benchmark CO2 emissions in the air cargo supply chain for specific freight types
- Work to develop a supply chain climate change group
CASS
- Introduce new CASS in the following major markets:
- Export: India, Chinese Taipei, Colombia, Israel
- Import: Australia, Canada, Singapore
- Domestics: China, USA, Brazil
- Encourage small volume carriers to adopt CASS
- Address billing error rates
Distribution
- Implement Indian air cargo programme
- Implement new CIS rate programme, aligned with changing immunity environment affecting US, EU, Australia
- Develop claims event and handbook as the supply chain guide