World Cargo Symposium 2008 Commitments

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.

View the complete presentation (ppt) by Aleks Popovich. 

The 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

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