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Aug 26, 2011 (newstodate): Starting from September, Lufthansa Cargo is to speed up the process of implementation of e-freight in the Swedish market.
-This is the top-priority issue on our agenda. Supported by the IATA office in Stockholm, we are now working hard to oversee the entire chain of elements in this process to make sure that all partners and suppliers are fully prepared, and beginning from September we will call on our customers to work with us to promote the implementation of e-freight across the market, says Rolf Carlsson, Lufthansa Cargo Country Manager Sweden.
-We intend to let the process grow organically, spurring forwarders to start out with simple transactions and growing step by step to more complicated cases in order to gain experience and build confidence with e-freight.
-We have set our targets for this drive that will increase the proportion of e-freight transactions to 15-20 percent in 2011, increasing to 30 percent in 2012 and to full implemention by 2014 when the paper AWB is due to become a thing of the past.
-Our campaign for implementing e-freight complies with the global environment where both IATA, WTO and FIATA have declared their commitment to the fully electronic air cargo transaction.
-As with e-freight, we are also keen to see the volume of e-bookings increasing. Maybe supported by the entry of a new generation of forwarders, the share of e-bookings has increased from 10 percent by the start of this year to currently 35 percent which is highly promising, says Mr Carlsson.
-This is the top-priority issue on our agenda. Supported by the IATA office in Stockholm, we are now working hard to oversee the entire chain of elements in this process to make sure that all partners and suppliers are fully prepared, and beginning from September we will call on our customers to work with us to promote the implementation of e-freight across the market, says Rolf Carlsson, Lufthansa Cargo Country Manager Sweden.
-We intend to let the process grow organically, spurring forwarders to start out with simple transactions and growing step by step to more complicated cases in order to gain experience and build confidence with e-freight.
-We have set our targets for this drive that will increase the proportion of e-freight transactions to 15-20 percent in 2011, increasing to 30 percent in 2012 and to full implemention by 2014 when the paper AWB is due to become a thing of the past.
-Our campaign for implementing e-freight complies with the global environment where both IATA, WTO and FIATA have declared their commitment to the fully electronic air cargo transaction.
-As with e-freight, we are also keen to see the volume of e-bookings increasing. Maybe supported by the entry of a new generation of forwarders, the share of e-bookings has increased from 10 percent by the start of this year to currently 35 percent which is highly promising, says Mr Carlsson.