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Air cargo leaders calls for 100pc e-freight at Dubai conference

AIR cargo industry leaders called for 100 per cent e-freight adoption at the recent Clear View, a Kale Thought Leadership Summit for Air Cargo in Dubai.

The summit was an interactive platform with the participation from leading airlines, airport cargo handlers, industry associations, regulators and industry consultants.



It discussed industry issues in a round table format involving all the participants, reported Trade Arabia News Service of Manama, Bahrain. 



There were four sessions over one and half days on the industry relevant subjects covering the changing business environment, the need for innovation. statutory compliance, enabling e-freight and the New Horizon - a Modern Age GHA. 



The subjects touched upon key areas of concern for airport cargo ground handling community such as benchmark airport key performance indicators, customs processes, the new opportunities and threats from e-commerce and modern technology like drone deliveries and 4D printing. 



The Clear View summit endeavoured to ensure that a collective voice of the industry gets collated and the industry itself can now prepare a charter for enabling "doable" activities so as to provide "practical solutions" to the issues discussed during the summit. 



"The energy, enthusiasm and response we got from the industry leaders at the summit was truly overwhelming," said Kale Logistics chairman Vipul Jain. 



"The next phase of work involves certain identified initiatives where leaders from different stakeholders have volunteered their support to take it forward."
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