FORT ATKINSON, Wis. - The global year-on-year cargo volume is growing by around 5 percent in 2024 and the air freight business in the Middle East, through the opening months of 2024, has experienced a 45 percent year-on-year increase in cargo volumes through Dubai, Mario Pierobon writes for Ground Support Worldwide. Continue reading original article.
The Military & Aerospace Electronics take:
21 August 2024 - Predicting demand and providing the right pricing is something that continues to be a challenge and an opportunity within air logistics, points out Marcel Fujike, global head of air logistics IT and technology at Kuehne + Nagel.
“As a logistics provider, we are lucky to have large amounts of data and a global network that helps us make accurate predictions based on that data,” he says.
Manel Galindo, chief revenue officer of WebCargo by Freightos, says it is necessary to work on standardization.
“To overcome challenges, one must improve the market by standardizing for commodities. For example, if forwarders want to sell online, they need to make sure that everyone in the office gives quotes the same way, that the words ‘pick up’ and ‘customs’ mean the same thing across the industry,” he says. “Some people think ‘digitalization’ only means technology, but there is still a lot of work to be done internally to make sure that we use the technology effectively. It is a process that we went through with airlines, which is why e-booking has really taken off. Now we need to see this process happen in every part of freight forwarding logistics.”
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Jamie Whitney, Senior Editor
Military + Aerospace Electronics
