CEVA joins Cargo 2000

CEVA Logistics said Tuesday it has joined Cargo 2000 as an associate member to realize new opportunities for productivity gains, cost efficiencies and further quality improvements in customer service.

CEVA is one of the world's largest buyers of airline cargo capacity, transporting 400 million kilograms of air freight each year onboard more than 500 flights a day to more than 100 countries.

Our membership has been growing steadily over the past two years, said Mick Fountain, chairman of Cargo 2000. We have been especially successful in attracting new airlines to join us but we have said on many occasions that we want additional participation in our program from other leading forwarders. CEVA's commitment to Cargo 2000 is another big boost to our program and we hope the company will be a strong force in our success. With ABX Logistics, Agility, DHL, Geodis, Hellmann, Kuehne + Nagel, Schenker, SDV, UTi and Yusen already working to Cargo 2000 standards, shippers all over the world can see that their major forwarding and logistics partners take the issue of quality improvement seriously. Cargo 2000 is a group of more than 60 major airlines, freight forwarders, ground handlers, trucking companies and IT providers who are implementing re-engineered air cargo transportation processes from shipper to consignee using Cargo's 2000's Master Operating Plan. This sits at the heart of an industry-wide process control and reporting system that drives data management and corrective action systems. By more than halving the number of individual processes in the air cargo supply chain to just 19, Cargo 2000 is less labor intensive and improves the process for managing shipments in a paperless environment. It substantially reduces time spent managing irregularities, such as service failures, cuts the time required for manual track and trace procedures and leads to a reduction in service recovery costs. 

Source: American Shipper