SAS Cargo goes paperless

 SAS Cargo said last week it has expanded its e-freight program to cover all shipments routed in and out of Sweden, Norway and Denmark since September, meaning the carrier has essentially gone paperless.

   The Scandinavian airline was a founding member of International Air Transport Association's e-freight initiative and had been pilot-testing the program on shipments between Gothenburg and Hong Kong for more than a year. The airline said it is "is ready to reap the benefit of the experience accumulated. The paper-free shipments are organized in close cooperation with national customs authorities and IATA forwarders like DHL, Schenker, Geodis Wilson, Khne + Nagel, and Trust Forwarding.

   In Norway alone Trust is processing 3.000 air waybills a month, and estimates claim that on the average each air waybill is handled 60 times during its life span, so obviously electronic air waybills represent a tremendous improvement of our work processes, said Robert Skoog, general manager of Trust Forwarding, in a statement. The paperwork will become much more simple and efficient, when all information needed will be available online. Skoog said the e-freight program would benefit customers by reducing typos on waybills and eliminating the problem of misplaced bills. 

Source: American Shipper