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Sep 4, 2008 (newstodate): Sweden took an early lead in IATA's e-freight project in Scandinavia, starting the process already one year ago.
-Sweden was accepted as one of five pilot markets to test out the e-freight procedures, and the route from Sweden to Hong Kong was designated as the first test lane, says Anders Hundahl, SAS Cargo director products and prices.
-Since the launch in Sweden, this has been a successful process, although we have so far not implemented e-freight with larger volumes on the lane.
-We have constrained ourselves to one or two fully paper-free shipments per flight, and in only one case have we been obliged to enable the back-up procedure with normal documents flow.
-We expect to take the next step around the turn of the year, allowing for larger paper-free shipments in greater quantity.
-With e-freight there is no requirement to pack, trace or transport documents with the shipment. e-freight removes a lot of barriers to the free flow of air cargo, and significantly lowers the complexity of cargo transactions, says Mr Hundahl.
-Sweden was accepted as one of five pilot markets to test out the e-freight procedures, and the route from Sweden to Hong Kong was designated as the first test lane, says Anders Hundahl, SAS Cargo director products and prices.
-Since the launch in Sweden, this has been a successful process, although we have so far not implemented e-freight with larger volumes on the lane.
-We have constrained ourselves to one or two fully paper-free shipments per flight, and in only one case have we been obliged to enable the back-up procedure with normal documents flow.
-We expect to take the next step around the turn of the year, allowing for larger paper-free shipments in greater quantity.
-With e-freight there is no requirement to pack, trace or transport documents with the shipment. e-freight removes a lot of barriers to the free flow of air cargo, and significantly lowers the complexity of cargo transactions, says Mr Hundahl.