When IATA first started to seriously promote e-freight to the air cargo industry in 2005, there was more than a little doubt expressed about the project. For a start, the cargo arm of IATA's ...

Emirates SkyCargo’s status as a leading innovator was confirmed this week as total shipments of e-freight, paperless cargo consignments, reached the one million kilos (approximately 1,102 tons) a ...

DUBAI, Feb. 12th, 2009: In December Emirates SkyCargo became the first e-freight-compliant carrier in the Middle East. Today, having successfully handled more than 1,000 e-freight shipments, it is the ...

IATA's e-freight project, designed to eventually shave $4.9 billion in costs annually across the air cargo supply chain, took a major step forward recently when the first Chinese airport signed up to ...

IATA yesterday launched pilot programs under its e-freight initiative, an effort aimed at overhauling cargo transported by air in the same way e-ticketing has overhauled the passenger business. The ...

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