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Jan 26, 2007 (newstodate): A leading Estonian cargo GSA is positive towards the introduction of IATA's CASS cargo accounting system in the Baltic markets.
-It is of course hard to say if CASS will benefit the Baltic GSSAs as we have no experience with CASS so far, and we have no idea yet how much it would cost, says Helena Roots, Air Proxy Ltd, managing director Estonia and Latvia.
-But in principle I believe that CASS is useful regarding decreasing the credit risks, and it is a good tool for statistics. I hope airlines will release our bank guarantees, but I know that it is not common practice, unfortunately, in many CASS countries.
-The introduction of CASS would also generate statistics on the Baltic airfreight market. This has so far been impossible to get, and there are many airlines as well as forwarders who would like to have a more precise picture about the cargo flows.
-At the moment it is too early to predict the forwarders' opinion as no charges known, but I believe the big global forwarders are happy that CASS will come. From an airline point of view I believe it is a good thing that CASS will start, and it could even induce more offline airlines to start operating in the Baltics, says Ms Roots.
Member of EGSAC, Airproxy's principals include SAS Cargo, Lufthansa Cargo, Singapore Airlines Cargo, CSA, Lithuanian Airlines, airBaltic and Aeroflot Cargo.
-It is of course hard to say if CASS will benefit the Baltic GSSAs as we have no experience with CASS so far, and we have no idea yet how much it would cost, says Helena Roots, Air Proxy Ltd, managing director Estonia and Latvia.
-But in principle I believe that CASS is useful regarding decreasing the credit risks, and it is a good tool for statistics. I hope airlines will release our bank guarantees, but I know that it is not common practice, unfortunately, in many CASS countries.
-The introduction of CASS would also generate statistics on the Baltic airfreight market. This has so far been impossible to get, and there are many airlines as well as forwarders who would like to have a more precise picture about the cargo flows.
-At the moment it is too early to predict the forwarders' opinion as no charges known, but I believe the big global forwarders are happy that CASS will come. From an airline point of view I believe it is a good thing that CASS will start, and it could even induce more offline airlines to start operating in the Baltics, says Ms Roots.
Member of EGSAC, Airproxy's principals include SAS Cargo, Lufthansa Cargo, Singapore Airlines Cargo, CSA, Lithuanian Airlines, airBaltic and Aeroflot Cargo.