IATA e-freight initiative

Paperless delivery of goods – from shipper to consignee

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) estimates paperless delivery of goods will save US$ 1.2 billion industry-wide. The IATA e-freight initiative was created to achieve this goal. It is designed to eliminate the need for paper documents for air cargo shipments by moving to a simpler paper-free environment.

The IATA e-freight initiative aims to:

Replace air carriage paper documents with electronic documents
Use electronic data to eliminate paper air waybills (numbering in the hundreds of millions per year)
Increase data quality, timeliness and consistency through Message Improvement Programme
Automate customs reporting (will require some legislative changes)

SITA contribution to the IATA e-freight initiative

CHAMP Cargosystems (CHAMP), a SITA company, is an IATA strategic partner as well as an IATA e-freight solutions vendor.

As such, CHAMP is ideally positioned to support the IATA e-freight initiative.

CHAMP assists with the IATA e-freight initiative by:

Establishing standards
Developing automated solutions for the full supply chain
Driving process improvements within the customer base