Article Disruptive Innovations in Air Cargo

Disruptive Innovation in Air Cargo Technology
The key to success for air freight industry lies in innovation, particularly in IT, as a means to excel across
the entire air freight value. It has been experienced that innovation today comes from niche IT providers,
who are knowledgeable and flexible to the changes required.
The global air cargo industry is attempting to replicate the success introduced enabling seamless exchange of information between
of passenger electronic ticketing (ET) to the air cargo industry internal operational systems and those used by the external trade
since 2006 with its e-Freight initiative. Recently, IATA has partners in the value chain. The organizations that introduced IoT
introduced eAWB360 – a "call-to-action" initiative at selected (Internet of Things) into world of logistics are able to monitor a
airports having a favourable regulatory and operational multitude of assets within a supply chain simultaneously using
environment. interconnected technologies. However, IoT applications currently
focus only upon improving capacity, efficiency, manageability,
reliability and cost reduction.
The key to success for air freight industry lies in innovation,
particularly in IT, as a means to excel across the entire air freight
value. It has been experienced that innovation today comes from
Noteworthy disruptive technologies worldwide
niche IT providers, who are knowledgeable and flexible to the
changes required. For decades, leading integrators have Industry trends reflect that displacing of established logistics firms
demonstrated the benefit that was generated with such an is likely in the coming years with disruptive innovation in
approach in terms of reducing data duplication, transparency, self- technology coming in force in airfreight` logistics.
service kiosks and mobility solutions. Many industry players
worldwide are eager to join this technology revolution.
Thus the question arises, “Why is it taking so long for the air cargo
industry to adapt to technology which is as simple & basic as the e- Innovation using disruptive technology goes
freight? beyond automation, e-business or digitization.
It's about 'paradigm shift in efcacy' of services
Technology advancements in air cargo: & core competency in the business.
When discrepancies were observed in communicating this
automated information, then collaborative platforms were
Disruptive Innovation in Air Cargo Technology
Drone based deliveries to replace cargo carriers

Drones are nothing but small unmanned cargo planes that can
carry a parcel of 5 pounds or less weight to the customers within Kale Logistics Solutions created the next
30 minutes. Air Cargo Industry will benefit the most, if the large
cargo carriers can go pilotless. This will help the industry cut fuel generation Cargo Community Systems (CCS
costs and reduce its carbon footprint by using planes that are 2.0). It has built a digital cargo community of
lighter and more efficient. However, the impact of this on Air Cargo
is yet to be fully gauged. importers, exporters, Forwarders, Customs
brokers, airports, airlines, freight stations,
Bluetooth based smart sensor networks Customs, Chambers of Commerce, banks.
A smart sensor network is composed of sensor nodes for These community solutions are very different
monitoring physical conditions such as temperature, humidity,
pressure, motion etc. This technology can be used to track from the traditional CCS; they play a much
shipping containers around the world in real time. By analysing this wider role than just a forwarder for an airline
data alongside historical data for a container's planned route, it
can identify likely bottlenecks and shrinkage areas, alerting or forwarder to Customs EDI. These also allow
shippers of potential disruptions. Thus potential savings by the SME players to run their entire business on
reducing cargo shrink and supply chain disruptions across the
industry are enormous. the CCS application. These solutions are not
transaction centric but stakeholder centric.
3D printing & autonomous vehicles
There are potential applications for 3D printing, such as on the spot
printing of replacement parts, which will impact the logistics
industry by reducing the need for parts and goods to be shipped.
This could reduce the number of shipped parts and supplies as A Future Perspective
products would be produced locally on demand, instead of being
shipped from overseas. As per industry reports, the UN Single Window concept could
therefore be a next logical step in trade digitization. It will help to
facilitate international trade and allow governments to give
True single window platforms businesses an opportunity to reduce their overheads and simplify
international shipments while at the same time keeping borders
Trade facilitation has evolved from EDI based electronic customs secure and documentation updated and in check. Digitalization is the
declaration systems to Community Systems. These have evolved game changing chance for air cargo industry to create a new future
into Fully Integrated Single Windows to connect traders,
Customs, regulatory authorities and private-sector participants.
Then came the True National single windows between two
economies and among several economies within a regional
grouping. The Single Window can enhance the availability and
authenticity of information thereby reducing fraud and expediting
and simplifying information flow between trade centres and
governments resulting in greater harmonization and sharing of
relevant data across parties involved in cross-border trade.
The largest air cargo plane in the world is the Antonov An-225
Mriya, which can take off with a maximum weight of 640 tonnes

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