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Sep 14, 2010 (newstodate): The penetration of e-freight in the Finnish market, spearheaded by Finnair Cargo, has not gained momentum as hoped.
The process was launched in May, 2009, and the first trade lane for Finnair Cargo's testing of e-freight was the route between Helsinki and Hong Kong, with DHL Global Forwarding and Schenker as lead industry partners.
-The experience with paperless e-freight shipments from Helsinki to Hong Kong has been very positive, and today shipments from Helsinki go almost 100 percent paperless, says Kristian Voss, Finnair Cargo's responsible person for e-freight process.
-In the other direction, however, things have hardly moved at all, and plans for adding a second lane between Helsinki and New York have been postponed.
-Everyone is convinced of the long-term benefits from implementing paperless e-freight, but differences in cultures among nations, airlines and forwarders are slowing down the process considerably.
-Actually, Finnair Cargo has now put its plans for further implementation of e-freight on hold as we need first to address the situation with new US customs regulation from the turn of the year. Not to say that we do not see the importance of the e-freight, but we simply have to focus our resources first on the new issues with the trans-Atlantic trade, says Mr Voss.
The process was launched in May, 2009, and the first trade lane for Finnair Cargo's testing of e-freight was the route between Helsinki and Hong Kong, with DHL Global Forwarding and Schenker as lead industry partners.
-The experience with paperless e-freight shipments from Helsinki to Hong Kong has been very positive, and today shipments from Helsinki go almost 100 percent paperless, says Kristian Voss, Finnair Cargo's responsible person for e-freight process.
-In the other direction, however, things have hardly moved at all, and plans for adding a second lane between Helsinki and New York have been postponed.
-Everyone is convinced of the long-term benefits from implementing paperless e-freight, but differences in cultures among nations, airlines and forwarders are slowing down the process considerably.
-Actually, Finnair Cargo has now put its plans for further implementation of e-freight on hold as we need first to address the situation with new US customs regulation from the turn of the year. Not to say that we do not see the importance of the e-freight, but we simply have to focus our resources first on the new issues with the trans-Atlantic trade, says Mr Voss.