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Oct 15, 2014 (newstodate): Lufthansa Cargo is seeing sustained growth in the implementation of e-AWB in the Swedish market.
-We are now up to 30 percent e-AWB, but the picture is not just black/white, says Alexander Kohnen, Lufthansa Cargo Director for the Nordic and Baltic countries.
-The trend is absolutely positive, but while some of the forwarders that started out in time are now coming up with a very high proportion of e-AWBs, others who came off to a late start are still much behind in this respect. Anyhow, we are seeing more and more forwarders signing the multilateral e-AWB agreement.
-Our efforts are thus directed very much towards assisting these companies in getting started and activating their capacity to send e-AWBs, but we are taking a flexible approach to enforcing the full spectrum of requirements in the IATA system including the demand for cargo-IMP standard.
-Better to get started at all and then gradually prepare for adding more and more lines to the documents..
-It is also our experience that the question of attitudes towards implementing the e-AWB is not necessarily correlated to the size of the forwarder. Small companies may respond enthusiastically while large companies may have more reservations.
-Company culture and headquarter policies may have a strong influence on the eventual response - but things are indeed moving forward, says Mr Kohnen.
-We are now up to 30 percent e-AWB, but the picture is not just black/white, says Alexander Kohnen, Lufthansa Cargo Director for the Nordic and Baltic countries.
-The trend is absolutely positive, but while some of the forwarders that started out in time are now coming up with a very high proportion of e-AWBs, others who came off to a late start are still much behind in this respect. Anyhow, we are seeing more and more forwarders signing the multilateral e-AWB agreement.
-Our efforts are thus directed very much towards assisting these companies in getting started and activating their capacity to send e-AWBs, but we are taking a flexible approach to enforcing the full spectrum of requirements in the IATA system including the demand for cargo-IMP standard.
-Better to get started at all and then gradually prepare for adding more and more lines to the documents..
-It is also our experience that the question of attitudes towards implementing the e-AWB is not necessarily correlated to the size of the forwarder. Small companies may respond enthusiastically while large companies may have more reservations.
-Company culture and headquarter policies may have a strong influence on the eventual response - but things are indeed moving forward, says Mr Kohnen.