This provides critical agility as air cargo contends with unexpected shifts due to the global pandemic.As Christian Tesch, director airfreight carrier relations and procurement, Hellmann Worldwide Logistics, commented: “Live access to capacity and price supports our ongoing commitment to provide Hellmann customers with outstanding service. We’re delighted to see Turkish Cargo on WebCargo.”

Turkish Cargo will first roll out on WebCargo in Spain and India, and will be quickly followed by roll outs in several more countries. With the airline’s shift to global eBookings, more than 20% of global air cargo capacity will now be digitised, providing more than 2,000 WebCargo forwarders customers across over 10,000 global branches with instant access to capacity and pricing.

Turhan OZEN, chief cargo officer at Turkish Airlines, explained: “Effective leadership is required to handle the customers constantly diversifying demands accurately across the air cargo industry.

“As the air cargo brand with one of the widest networks in the world, we focus on digital solutions. We are pleased to partner with WebCargo to provide digital connectivity for our customers as part of our commitment to constant innovation in offering the best service possible.”

“In the past year, eBookings have increased tenfold on WebCargo, making it clear that the future of air cargo is digital” said Manel Galindo, chief executive officer, WebCargo. “We’re incredibly proud to partner with Turkish Cargo, one of the most impactful and influential global cargo airlines, to launch eBookings for forwarders around the world.”

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IATA, the International Air Transport Association, has released a new digital platform called EPIC (Enhanced Partner Identification and Connectivity). It will be used as a database with tools that centralizes connection information for stakeholders, reducing the cycle time to determine communication channels with each other to minutes, according to IATA.

There are over 40,000 freight forwarders exchanging messages with over 450 airlines through various third-party messaging service providers. EPIC’s digitisation of this communication process will accelerate the speed in which information is sent along the supply chain as well as make any information delivered more accessible. EPIC has already attracted the participation of 32 airlines, 900 freight forwarders, 10 government authorities, 5 international organizations and 13 third-party messaging providers.

EPIC does not stop there. It aims toward becoming a one-stop-shop in the global supply chain space. Not only will it help business-to-business communication, but it will also support digital customs clearance process. Advance cargo information (ACI) requirements rollouts and preloading ACI programs (PLACI) will receive a boost.

IATA has rolled out their new digital platform under a subscription model that will allow users to realise quick revenue and cut direct costs by as much as 40%.

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