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JUN 30, 2005 (newstodate): Cargo 2000 and the issue of e-bookings will work hand in glove and spur eachother.
-The issue of e-bookings is closely tied to the Cargo 2000 process that is now gaining momentum, says Wolfgang Schmitz, Lufthansa Cargo VP, and member of the boards both at Cargo 2000 and GF-X.
-The increased transparency of all elements in the cargo cycle, and the shared information enjoyed by all parties involved calls for an increasing role of bookings through electronic media rather than phones and faxes.
-Booking through manual media will always be needed as many cargo operations require personal contact and manual intervention. You will probably never be able to book the shipment of an elephant through electonic media, but as for those segments that require less or no intervention, electronic bookings rates must increase.
-There is still a marked intertia among forwarders preferring traditional booking procedures. But Cargo 2000 will enable everybody to share insight into where bottlenecks exist, or where quality is below standards, and this will eventually boost e-bookings as a preferred means of communication between forwarders and airlines, he says.
-The issue of e-bookings is closely tied to the Cargo 2000 process that is now gaining momentum, says Wolfgang Schmitz, Lufthansa Cargo VP, and member of the boards both at Cargo 2000 and GF-X.
-The increased transparency of all elements in the cargo cycle, and the shared information enjoyed by all parties involved calls for an increasing role of bookings through electronic media rather than phones and faxes.
-Booking through manual media will always be needed as many cargo operations require personal contact and manual intervention. You will probably never be able to book the shipment of an elephant through electonic media, but as for those segments that require less or no intervention, electronic bookings rates must increase.
-There is still a marked intertia among forwarders preferring traditional booking procedures. But Cargo 2000 will enable everybody to share insight into where bottlenecks exist, or where quality is below standards, and this will eventually boost e-bookings as a preferred means of communication between forwarders and airlines, he says.