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What’s the holy grail of Air Cargo? – Go Digital

What’s the holy grail of Air Cargo? – Go Digital

Bright spots

One of the few aviation bright spots during the COVID-19 crisis is – Air Cargo. While passenger traffic plummeted and 50% or more of the passenger fleet were parked for much of last year, most cargo freighters remained in service with even higher levels of utilization, helped by a dramatic decline in the capacity of belly cargo. Most importantly, supply chain digitization took place quite rapidly. This emerging trend will decide and revolutionize the way the air cargo industry functions.Short-term shipping demand fuelled by the pandemic mixed with the unabated growth of e-commerce, not to mention the congestion and capacity limitation experienced in other modes of transportation, has led to a structural logistics challenge that individual air cargo stakeholders can’t face alone. Movement of air cargo has to be integrated in a way that the processes. However, attempts at coordinating the different stakeholders have been frustratingly slow, inevitably failing to make a significant change with squabbles over who should bear the brunt of investment or who be the first in the chain.