HOOFDDORP, THE NETHERLANDS: CEVA Logistics has promoted Jérôme Lorrain to Chief Operating Officer Freight Management adding the responsibility for Air and Ocean Freight to his current position as head of the ground business line.
Lorrain, a French national, will continue to serve on the company’s Executive Board and takes over the air and ocean role from Helmut Kaspers who has left the company.
Michael O’Donoghue, currently Managing Director of the UK, Ireland & Nordics cluster, will be taking up the reins as Managing Director for North America from Lorrain from January 1, 2018. A replacement for O’Donoghue’s current role will be announced in due course.
Lorrain has extensive knowledge of the supply chain, logistics and transport industries in almost every market sector.
Before joining CEVA, he was CEO of Wallenborn Transports in Luxembourg May 2009 to May 2014 and prior to that worked at Kuehne + Nagel for nearly a decade beginning in 2000 in senior executive positions across the world.
LONDON: Virgin Atlantic Cargo has designated Paul Fallon as the new Director Commercial and Business Development and Tania Wilson as Director Operations.
The changes follow Dominic Kennedy’s promotion to Managing Director of Virgin Atlantic Cargo in August.
Paul began his career in Virgin’s Commercial team in year 2003 and later spent over five years as Head of Business Development before taking the post of Director Cargo Operations and Business Development in August 2015.
Tania, who will take up her new post in January 2018, is currently Head of Safety at Virgin Atlantic, responsible for flight safety, ground operations safety, engineering safety, cabin safety and occupational health and safety. Tania joined Virgin Atlantic from Airbus UK in year 2001 as a Development Engineer and took up her existing role in year 2013.
In their new roles, Paul and Tania will be based at Virgin’s VHQ headquarters near London Gatwick Airport.
ABU DHABI: Etihad Airways has named Justin Carr as the new VP Cargo effective this month.
Carr, who joined the company in the summer from DHL where he was head of MNC Business Development for the ME & Africa region, will be joined by Andre Blech, the new Head of Cargo Delivery. Strengthening the leadership team, Andre Blech has been announced as the new Head of Cargo Delivery.
Also reporting to Carr, Roberto Gilardoni will expand his current role to include Freighters, Global Customer Management and Industry Verticals.
Etihad Aviation Group (EAG) is a diversified global aviation and travel group comprising five business divisions – Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, Etihad Airways Engineering, Etihad Airport Services, Hala Group, and Airline Equity Partners.
Etihad Airways, which has a fleet of more than 100 airbus and Boeing aircraft, flies to 100 passenger and cargo destinations in the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia and the Americas.
MUMBAI: If you’re thinking of traveling to India, ditch your lighters before reaching the airports if you don’t want to be arrested and detained. India’s Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) is now empowered to arrest passengers carrying lighters at airports. The precautionary move aimed at thwarting any possible security attacks have so far resulted to 10 arrests on a daily basis, officials said. The offense is not considered criminal in nature but passengers caught with lighters are required to make a written apology before they are released.
PARIS: Groupe ADP has launched an awareness campaign on the human and economic costs of unclaimed bags with reports showing that 400 flights were delayed at Paris CDG in the first nine months of 2017 due to unattended bags.
“More than 1,000 operations were carried out in the first nine months of 2017 to deal with unattended luggage at Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport,” said Groupe ADP chairman and CEO, Augustin de Romanet.
Groupe ADP, the operator of Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport, is making the campaign available in French, English and Chinese. The company says the stakes are high for the airlines and public authorities, including airport operators.
“Depending on where the unattended luggage is located, the entire terminal or a part of the terminal may/must be evacuated. Delays can be considerable for some flights. Since the start of the year, around 60% of unattended luggage has been left at ParisCharles de Gaulle Airport, with 40% of these bags left at the Air France-KLM hub. In August 2017 alone, 214 bags were left by their owners, i.e. an increase of approximately 30% compared to August 2016,” Groupe ADP said.
More than 1,000 unattended bags were recorded from January to September this year at Paris-CDG. Group ADP handled via Paris Aéroport more than 97 million passengers & 2.2 million metric tons of freight & mail at Paris-CDG and Orly in 2016 and an additional over 42 million passengers in airports abroad through its subsidiary ADP Int’l. The Group’s revenue stood at €2,947 million and net income at €435 million during the period.
ISTANBUL: Turkish Airlines made US$939 million net profit in the third quarter of 2017, a record in its more than 84-year history, as the global passenger demand hits a new high this year of more than 4 billion.
Its subsidiary, Turkish Cargo, also raked in profits during the period at almost 40 percent to US$343 million. It was adjudged as the “Best Air Cargo Carrier in Asia” in 2017.
The company said the successful 3rd quarter marked a 23 percent increase on total revenues compared to the same period of 2016, reaching US$ 3.6 billion. The 9-monthly average on total revenues marked US$ 8.2 billion with an 8 percent increase.
According to Turkish Airlines 2017 Q3 financial results; the margin of its earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) increased 90 percent to USD 1.5 billion. The 41 percent EBITDA margin confirms the Airline’s position amongst the most profitable airlines of the industry.
“The net profit recorded in 2017 Q3, clearly demonstrates our capacity to generate cash. As the Turkish Airlines family with our common aim to become one of the leading five star airlines of the world, we will continue this growth trend without ever compromising form our service quality. As largest exporter of Turkey, our march will continue to position I s t anbul a s a ma jor hub for international airport,” said İlker Aycı, Turkish Airlines Chairman of the Board and Executive Committee.
The airline recorded more than 80 percent load factor in Q3 2017 covering 21.3 million in passenger traffic. This brings to 52 million the passengers it had served over the past nine months in the current year.
DUBAI: Record deals worth more than $113.8 billion in new aircraft orders and lease agreements were made at the five-day Dubai Air Show 2017 with Boeing and Airbus dominating the market, officials announced.
The amount is nearly triple of what were ordered in 2015 with many airlines replacing their old fleet and opting for the more fuel-efficient planes. But it still fell short of the US$200 billion sales made in 2013.
The deals highlight the importance of the Middle East as an aviation market for manufacturers despite the geopolitical challenges in the region, experts said.
“The figures speak for themselves – it’s been another successful year. Dubai is geographically at the center of the global aviation world, & Dubai Airshow is where the sector comes to do business. We have seen incredible, unmatched deals, innovations and ideas,” said Michele van Akelijen, Managing Director of organizers, Tarsus F&E LLC Middle East.
BOEING
Boeing estimated the new orders and commitments for 302 airplanes, including 50 options, at about US$50 billion at list prices.
“This has been a very successful show for Boeing. Our regional customers have maintained their trust in our products and technology, and our partnerships in the Middle East region continue to grow,” said Bernard Dunn, President, Boeing Middle East, North Africa and Turkey.
The US manufacturer secured orders for both commercial and defense aircraft with a host of airlines in the region and elsewhere.
“We signed agreements with key airline partners including Emirates, flydubai, Azerbaijan Airlines, ALAFCO and Ethiopian Airlines. In addition, Egyptair became a new customer for the 787. Finally the airshow was a great opportunity to introduce our newest business unit, Boeing Global Services, to the Middle East market and reiterate the importance of the region to the Boeing Company,” said Dunn.
AIRBUS
Though the French company Airbus failed to secure orders from Emirates, it emerged victorious with a surprise order from the Arizona-based Indigo Partners for 430 A320 neo family planes worth nearly US$50 billion.
The new orders will be allocated among the ultra low-cost airlines Frontier Airlines (United States), JetSMART (Chile), Volaris (Mexico) and Wizz Air (Hungary) upon the completion of final purchase agreements between Airbus and the four airlines, Airbus announced.
The new (A321neo LR) will join Air Arabia’s existing fleet of 50 A320 aircraft that serve over 133 routes from five hubs in the UAE (Sharjah and Ras Al Khaimah), Morocco, Egypt & Jordan.
The 430-aircraft commitment is comprised of 273 A320neos and 157 A321neos worth $49.5 billion at list prices.
Bill Franke, Managing Partner of Indigo Partners, and John Leahy, Airbus Chief Operating Officer Customers, Airbus Commercial Aircraft, said in a joint statement that when added to existing Airbus A320 Family orders, the new agreement will make Indigo Partners one of the largest customers by order number in the world for the Airbus single-aisle aircraft family.
“This significant commitment for 430 additional aircraft underscores our optimistic view of the growth potential of our family of low-cost airlines, as well as our confidence in the A320neo Family as a platform for that growth,” said Franke. “Our airlines know that a great aircraft coupled with a great business plan will create value for our customers. We look forward to bringing comfort and low fares to more passengers around the world as Wizz Air, Volaris, JetSMART and Frontier continue to expand.”
“Indigo Partners have been a tremendous customer and supporter of the Airbus single-aisle fleet for many years,” said Leahy. “We are proud to augment their airline fleets in Latin America, North America and Europe with the single-aisle aircraft that offers the lowest operating costs, longest range and most spacious cabin: the A320neo Family.”
The A320neo Family incorporates the very latest technologies, including new generation engines and Sharklet wing-tip devices, which together will deliver 20 percent fuel savings by 2020.
With more than 5,200 orders received from 95 customers since its launch in 2010, the A320neo Family has captured nearly 60 percent market share.
EMIRATES: The world’s largest airline, Dubai’s Emirates, was Boeing’s largest customer, placing 40 orders of 787-10 Dreamliners valued at $15.1 billion at current list prices.
The airline which is also the largest 777 Boeing operator will receive its 777X in 2020.
Emirates says it chose Dreamliners because of its 25 percent better fuel efficiency per seat and emissions capabilities.
His Highness Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, chairman and chief executive of Emirates Airline and Group, said Emirates orders will be delivered from 2022, taking the airline well into the 2030s.
“Some of these will be replacements so that we maintain a young and efficient fleet, and others will power our future network growth. We see the 787 as a great complement to our 777 and A380 fleet, providing us with more flexibility to serve a range of destinations as we develop our global route network,” he said.
Boeing Commercial Airplanes President & CEO Kevin McAllister described the Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner “as an airplane that will set a new benchmark for operating economics in the commercial aviation industry when it enters service next year.”
flydubai
flydubai is expanding its network with the purchase of US$27 billion 225 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft, including 50 options. This is the airline’s third aircraft order in its eight-year history.
The Dubai-based flydubai marked its fifth Dubai Air Show by unveiling its brand-new Boeing 737 MAX 8, the first of its 76 orders, scheduled to be fully delivered by 2023.
Six of these aircraft will join the flydubai fleet by the end of the last quarter of 2017.
“We are gearing up and putting the final touches to these new aircraft which will improve our overall fleet performance, bring more flexibility and efficiency to our operations and further support our commitment to opening up new destinations, whilst delivering an exceptional onboard experience for our passengers,” said flydubai’s Chief Executive Officer Ghaith Al Ghaith, commenting on the arrival of the MAX 8.
flydubai’s new Boeing 737 MAX 8s will initially be deployed on the furthest points on the carrier’s network. Destinations including Bangkok, Prague, Yekaterinburg and Zanzibar will be among the first to be served by the MAX 8. The additional aircraft being delivered over the next few years will be rolled out across the fleet and will become available on most of the routes on the network.
Since the beginning of 2017, flydubai has launched six new destinations and grown its network to more than 95 destinations, increased the schedule to more than 1,700 flights per week as well as rolled out its new uniform worn by more than 2,500 uniformed staff.
EGYPTAIR & BOMBARDIER
Egypt’s national carrier, Egyptair signed a letter of intent (LOI) for up to 24 CS300 aircraft with Canada’s Bombardier Commercial Aircraft.
The deal includes 12 CS300 aircraft with purchase rights for an additional 12 aircraft with their firm order contract valued at US$1.1 billion.
Should EgyptAir also exercise the 12 purchase rights for CS300 aircraft, the contract value would increase to nearly $2.2 billion.
“It is our pleasure to have this new partnership with Bombardier, which came as a continuation of our fleet modernization strategy. We undertook a thorough evaluation process of our fleet and realized that the CS300 would fit perfectly into our business plans and growth strategy,” said Egyptair Chairman & CEO Satwat Musallam.
He said the C Series aircraft serves best their domestic and regional destinations, including neighboring Arab cities in the Middle East.
Fred Cromer, President of Bombardier, said: “We’re thrilled that EgyptAir selected the CS300 aircraft to renew its fleet. Bombardier’s 20-year market outlook foresees demand for 450 airplanes in the 60- to 150-seat category for the region and this LOI confirms the need for right-sized aircraft in the Middle East.”
Established on May 7, 1932, Egyptair was the first airline in the Middle East and Africa and the seventh in the world to join IATA.
AIR ARABIA
The Sharjah-based low cost carrier Air Arabia signed a lease agreement for six Airbus A321 neo long-range aircraft at the show.
The additional planes are due for delivery in 2019 and will be used for high density routes as well as in Southeast Asia and Africa.
“We continue to witness growth in passenger traffic across our hubs and remain focused on our business model and mission to provide affordable fare and value for money to passengers. The addition of A321neo Long Range aircraft allow us to expand our service to longer range destinations and helps offer more flexibility in our existing high density routes,” said Adel Al Ali, Group Chief Executive Officer of Air Arabia.
The new (A321neo LR) will join Air Arabia’s existing fleet of 50 A320 aircraft that serve over 133 routes from five hubs in the UAE (Sharjah and Ras Al Khaimah), Morocco, Egypt and Jordan.
John Leahy, Chief Operating Officer Customers, Airbus Commercial Aircraft, said the A321 is a great addition to complement Air Arabia’s Airbus fleet.
“With its unique customized interior and passenger comfort, the aircraft will enable Air Arabia to continue to innovate and lead the low cost air travel market in the MENA region while providing its customers with a great value driven product,” he said.
Ajay Singh wears many hats but he is probably best known in India as the man who founded the low-cost carrier SpiceJet in 2005. Sold it and successfully revived from near closure in 2014, taking over from the buyer when the company was buried in mountains of debts.
“I did not take over SpiceJet, when it was on the verge of a shutdown two years ago, to become rich. I did that as I had an emotional connect with the employees and the company, which I founded in 2005,” Singh was quoted in the Indian media as saying.
Today, SpiceJet is debt-free and is considered as India’s third largest private airline with about 200 aircraft. Its stock was up 124 percent in 2017 and has gained more than 800 percent since its near-demise in December 2014 with market value of US$1.2 billion.
And Singh is credited for the airline’s dramatic turnaround and expansion overseas.
SpiceJet currently flies 10 times a week to Dubai from several key cities in India. The airline plans to add more flights once India and the UAE sign new bilateral air agreements allowing more slots for Indian carriers to serve the route.
Well exposed and experienced in business even at an early age, Singh was raised in a family that successfully dabbled in real estate and fashion accessories business in India where the majority of the population are women.
His ability to resurrect a company from near death has been noticed early on when he successfully brought to profits the Delhi Transport Corporation in 1996. Back then, the company had only 300 buses and within two years, Singh grew it to 6,000 buses with good revenues.
As a student, Singh was into crickets and hockey, even playing as a captain for his cricket team at St. Columba’s School in New Delhi.
After finishing his engineering degree in New Delhi, he went to the United States where he took up his MBA in Finance at Cornell University.
He initially joined his family’s business before setting his sights in India’s private sector.
The aviation billionaire said he doesn’t have much free time with his many responsibilities at SpiceJet and his other businesses but when he does, he likes to spend it with his family, the simple things in life and his new advocacy—promoting boxing in India.
“I don’t have that much free time,” he told Air Cargo Update in an interview on the sidelines of Aviation Show MENASA held in Dubai where he was among the panelists. “When I do get free time, I watch movies. I listen to music and watch a lot of sports.”
“I have two wonderful daughters and I like to spend time with them. One is studying in the US and the other is just one-year-old,” he added.
As President of the Boxing Federation of India, Singh said he devotes time to promote the sport among Indians saying the country needs to professionalize boxing.
Among his priorities is to provide boxers with the best training, coaches and technical officials as well as improve infrastructure related to the sport.
“We will try to win a lot of medals in boxing in the coming Olympics,” said Singh who is bent on winning no matter what the battle is.
Imagine hauling shipments up to 80,000 pounds in a truck without refueling for 500 miles on a full charge. And with Enhanced Autopilot feature, it can drive on its own on highways, with automatic braking, lane keeping and lane departure warnings.
That’s Tesla Semi, Elon Musk’s newly unveiled fully-electric Class 8 semi truck, making a major buzz in the global transport industry even before the first prototype is scheduled to be released in 2019.
Musk said the full drivetrain of the truck will be guaranteed up to one million miles but pricing hasn’t been announced.
The truck, which features a sleek, modern design with no trailer, is igniting so much curiosity with its battery that can last up to 500 miles on a full charge which would spell a lot of savings compared to the traditional fuel-generated truck.
That’s Tesla Semi, Elon Musk’s newly unveiled fully-electric Class 8 semi truck, making a major buzz in the global transport industry even before the first prototype is scheduled to be released in 2019.
The truck’s giant battery has four independent electric motors—one for each rear wheel—similar to Model 3. The battery powers can be recharged within a short period of time—30 minutes or so—with which it can travel for another 400 miles. In the United States, most freight trucks move less than 250 miles.
At the unveiling, Musk said a standard model and an upgraded version with an aerodynamics package will both be available. He said theTesla Semi could reach zero to 60 mph in just five seconds and when carrying the maximum load, it can reach that’s peed in just 20 seconds.
Though Musk’s latest innovation is not fully autonomous, it carries features that will make it very convenient to be used and ease for the driver when traveling. It also has the ability to move as a convoy using the platooning method where multiple trucks follow one human driver leader.
Orders are filing for Tesla Semi even before the first production could be released in two years time. In the United States, several companies in the retail and grocery sectors have already placed orders.
But it looks like Tesla will be the first customer with the company’s VP for Truck Programs, Jerome Guillen, announcing at the annual conference of Transport and Logistics at the Netherlands late November, it will use the electric semi trucks to carry cargo between its factory in Fremont California and its battery factory in Nevada.
Founded in 2003, the American automaker and energy company Tesla, which pioneered in self-driving vehicles, now has more than 33,000 employees with assets of over US$22.6 billion. Traded in NASDAQ as TSLA, its share prices rose by 2.95 percent to US$315.55 as of November 24.
“Tesla will be the first customer for the truck. We will use our own truck to carry cargo in the US between our different facilities. We have an assembly facility in California, the Gigafactory in Nevada, so we will use the trucks to carry things in between,” he said.
Founded in 2003, the American automaker and energy company Tesla, which pioneered in self-driving vehicles, now has more than 33,000 employees with assets of over US$22.6 billion. Traded in NASDAQ as TSLA, its share prices rose by 2.95 percent to US$315.55 as of November 24.
Analysts said Testa Semi’s entry to the market will disrupt the energy sector, the production line of semi manufacturers, including the lives of truck drivers—for the better.
Transport is often seen as the harbinger of broader economy. In a marketplace where increased competition and slowing growth are common, carriers are intent on securing every possible dollar of revenue by reducing operational costs.
In fact, about 71 percent of air cargo executives would consider new cargo management systems to lower overall costs, improve business agility and speed deployment, according to Accenture 2015 survey Air Cargo Research.
The complexity of the air cargo business demands a dynamic business strategy that allows carriers to quickly and efficiently adjust their business strategy in response to fluctuating market conditions. Those that manage to do this get a distinctive compe-titive advantage.
Aviation currently provides 58 million jobs & contributes $2.4 trillion in GDP based on the analysis of the International Air Transport Association (IATA). This is expected to increase to 105 million jobs and $6 trillion in GDP in 2034 with demand for air transport projected to grow at an all time high.
Air Cargo Update met with Lee Booth, Champ Cargosystems SA VP Global Products, to discuss how the company’s cargo management system Cargospot adds agility to air cargo business.
Cargospot
Cargospot is an end-to-end system supporting the customers’ business by managing their complete business process.
This ranges from capacity control, pricing and reservations of the airline ensuring the best utilization and yield, through to operational handling of the shipments in the warehouse, making sure that the cargo is at the right place at the right time to allow aircraft to depart on-time.
Finally, and most importantly, accounting for the shipments as soon as they’re flown ensuring cash-flow is as optimized as possible.
Lee Booth notes, “CHAMP has created this management platform as an integrated, yet modular system. That means information need only be captured once at source and is then available for use by the rest of the business processes until the shipments are accounted and the money is in the bank.”
Cargospot is built with the following integrated modules:
Cargospot is a community system with more than 130 customers benefitting from it. These can range from small to large airlines, full freighter operators, mixed-fleet operators to belly only airlines.
It also has a wide range of GSAs and GHAs from small single station operators through to large, world-wide ground handlers. All of these customers benefit from the CHAMP community, because all enhancements and regulatory changes, which are made to Cargospot, are immediately available to the complete community.
To support this, Cargospot is highly configurable such that the customer can choose which features to activate and which business process behavior the system should support.
CHAMP’s solution does not just include Cargospot – Cargospot is integrated with other operational management components (ULD management and Freighter Weight & Balance) as well as our eFreight (Customs [Traxon Global Customs], Quality [CDMP, MIP]) and our community integration services (TraxoncargoHUB).
A Lego system
“CHAMP is a one-stop shop for our customers. It is a Modular solution that gets tailored in line with clients’ needs. Many think of it as a Lego system, which can be the full set (Booking, invoicing, business intelligence, handling, customs, quality monitoring) or just the few that you need,” explains Booth.
Furthermore, it seamlessly integrates with other CHAMP or 3rd party software. Therefore, it can be as comprehensive as the client needs it.
Cargospot is highly configurable with all customers on a single source, although each customer has its own system. To achieve this, Cargospot is rich with configurations, allowing Customer A to have a feature behaving one way and Customer B having the same feature behaving a different way. These configurations are set during the implementation phase of a customer’s go-live.
“We have many customers who have more than one airline in their group, allowing them to perform revenue accounting for each airline in their group,” said Booth.
Cost effective management
CHAMP has the largest air cargo community demonstrating that it can provide cost-effective management solutions helping its Cargospot clients to achieve savings in improved yield-control, reducing costs, optimizing resource and overhead allocations.
Additionally, CHAMP’s solutions are offered as a software as a Service, hence the customer only pays on usage, ensuring an attractive, and cost-effective proposition.
“CHAMP believes that it should benefit when the customer benefits, so we charge for our services on a per-use basis. This means that our customers can focus on their growth, knowing that their system will grow with them and they will only be charged for what they use. This is a strong benefit to customers who previously had to provision their own systems and bear the cost fully, irrespective of their business performance,” said Booth.
“CHAMP is a leading end-to-end solution provider to the air cargo industry. As such, we also have a messaging and connectivity platform TraxoncargoHUB, which currently connects over 3000 forwarders, GSAs, GHA, Postal authorities, shippers to over 100+ airlines.
“Forwarders using TraxoncargoHUB as their Cargo Community Solution (CCS) Provider, will benefit from messaging services regardless of protocol and messaging type. Cargospot also is able to handle C-XML message.”
Business intelligence module
Cargospot not only produces reports, but also offers a Business Intelligence module that allows customers to visualize their business performance as well as being able to customize their reports needed for their businesses.
Its offering also includes SLA and CDMP modules, which monitor the performance of the shipments, and alerts should there be any deviation from the committed service levels.
“As Cargospot is an integrated system, all data is available for each ‘modular view’ as soon as it is in the system (either manually captured, or more normally when received by messages from other parties in the supply chain),” Booth explained.
“That means that the revenue accounting department can see bookings as soon as they’re made (or received) in the system by the airline. Equally they can see the moment shipments have departed origin – they don’t need to wait for a ‘data-feed’, or worse, recapture the data manually. This is a significant boost to productivity,” he added.
Cargospot is fully integrated into the industry settlement systems so it allows the invoice to be generated as early as possible, improving the airline’s cash flow.
“CHAMP understands that our prospects already have systems in place to manage their day-to-day operations. They may have their own in-house systems for example, but with technology evolving, they may want to make a switch to newer IT and prefer to start slowly and start replacing one module at a time for pricing or continuity,” said Booth.
“All CHAMP products integrate with each other or 3rd party software. CHAMP understands that the air cargo community needs to collaborate and has hence put in efforts to integrate with other systems on the market. Our Cargospot portfolio is built on a platform that enables integration with external software to maximize benefits and efficiencies for our clients,” he added.
Digitalization drives growth
The industry is moving to digitization primarily through the e-AWB initiative. CHAMP drives to this automation through its e-AWB ready systems.
IATA said two of the Top 5 airlines ranking for e-AWB penetration are relying on Cargospot to get them to this position. Four out of the Top 10 airlines ranking for e-AWB volume make use of our TraxoncargoHUB providing distribution and integration among the supply chain stakeholders.
And five of the Top 10 freight forwarders ranking for e-AWB volume are connected to the air cargo community via CHAMP’s TraxoncargoHUB.
” The company serves over 200 airlines and GSAs, and links these with some 3,000 forwarders and GHAs worldwide. CHAMP’s solutions help its customers and their clients adapt to critical and continuous changes in air transport logistics to meet global trade demands.”
Market leadership not only comes about from a strong service offering, but also from the capabilities to adept and evolve with the ever-changing market and regulatory requirements.
“I think this gets down to the full offering, from entire air cargo supply chain portfolio on offer, the ability to implement small, medium and large complex projects, the service provided, the ability to support your client base with day-to-day performance, but also with their ambitions for the future. So it’s the IT, technology, innovation, the people with air cargo know-how.
“CHAMP has 475+ Cargo professionals and is fully dedicated to air cargo IT. This is something very unique. We have implemented 150+ core management projects with airlines and handlers in 75 different countries. So we have obtained strong expertise in different business processes across different clients, enabling us to not only provide the IT solutions, but also the consultancy on how to best merry processes and IT together,” concludes Booth.
About CHAMP Cargosystems
CHAMP Cargosystems provides the most comprehensive range of integrated IT solutions and distribution services for the air cargo transport chain. The portfolio spans core management systems, messaging services, and eCargo solutions. These include applications to meet customs and security requirements, quality optimization as well as e-freight and mobility needs. The products and services are well known under the Cargospot, Traxon and Logitude brands.
The company serves over 200 airlines and GSAs, and links these with some 3,000 forwarders and GHAs worldwide. CHAMP’s solutions help its customers and their clients adapt to critical and continuous changes in air transport logistics to meet global trade demands.
CHAMP Cargosystems is headquartered in Luxembourg and operates offices in London, Zurich, Frankfurt /Main and Manila.
In air cargo moving to digital even has more benefits:
Limit the amount of data that needs re-entering across the other supply chain stakeholders Save time & increase accuracy
Less costs for printing, storing and transporting the documents on the planes
Ability to optimize load factor of aircrafts
Ability to analyze better overall performances and improve the processes to streamline air cargo, make it even faster and keep shippers and consignees happy.
Technology has made the world smaller and faster.Real time communication with people from all over the world at different time zones through phones and gadgets
