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Jun 24, 2015 (newstodate): While the penetration rate of the e-AWB in the Danish market is generally increasing, one carrier has seemingly been rather passive: SAS Cargo that is formally leading the process in Denmark.
-We have actually been working intensely on this process. The main reason that SAS Cargo has been reluctant is actually that we have stuck to the agreement between the airlines not to fully release the process until certain screening-related issues have been settled with IATA, says Pernille Hove, SAS Cargo's coordinator of the process among the IATA carriers in the Danish market.
-Our focus has been on the security screening info in the FWB, based on the Cargo IMP standard. This info is currently entered in the paper AWB, and must be entered into the electronic version as well. This has, however, not been a mandatory field in the CargoIMP standard, and IATA needed to solve this in order to get the forwarders to change their systems. The security screening can only be added in the FWB version 16, so this is required, too.
-At long last, and after much negotiation, IATA has now finally solved these problems. The screening info is now mandatory and once the agents' systems have been revised accordingly we will see SAS Cargo's e-AWB transactions rising, says Ms Hove.
SAS Cargo is soon to call a User Group Meeting to focus agents' attention on the new situation and the latest developments.
-We have actually been working intensely on this process. The main reason that SAS Cargo has been reluctant is actually that we have stuck to the agreement between the airlines not to fully release the process until certain screening-related issues have been settled with IATA, says Pernille Hove, SAS Cargo's coordinator of the process among the IATA carriers in the Danish market.
-Our focus has been on the security screening info in the FWB, based on the Cargo IMP standard. This info is currently entered in the paper AWB, and must be entered into the electronic version as well. This has, however, not been a mandatory field in the CargoIMP standard, and IATA needed to solve this in order to get the forwarders to change their systems. The security screening can only be added in the FWB version 16, so this is required, too.
-At long last, and after much negotiation, IATA has now finally solved these problems. The screening info is now mandatory and once the agents' systems have been revised accordingly we will see SAS Cargo's e-AWB transactions rising, says Ms Hove.
SAS Cargo is soon to call a User Group Meeting to focus agents' attention on the new situation and the latest developments.