IATA e-freight goes live in 58 US airports

FIFTY-EIGHT airports in the US have gone live with the International Air Transport Association (IATA) e-freight standard on domestic freight by ditching core paper documents with air cargo shipments and streamlining processes, improving speed and reliability, and cutting costs.

The IATA e-freight implementation team was led by American Airlines Cargo in close cooperation with DB Schenker Logistics.

International e-freight in the US went live in October 2008 and operates at Chicago, New York JFK and Miami for both imports and exports, and Atlanta, Dallas/Fort Worth and Los Angeles for imports only. There are plans to increase the number of US ports for both export and import over the coming months said a statement from IATA.

IATA e-freight is already operational in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Dubai, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Iceland, Japan, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mauritius, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, China, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom and the United States.

IATA represents some 230 airlines comprising 93 per cent of scheduled international air traffic. The organisation also represents, leads and serves the airline industry in general.
(Source:www.schednet.com)