3.5 million tonnes of cargo a year. According to Winfried Hartmann,
managing director of Fraport Cargo Services, a major handler at Frankfurt- Main airport, one of Europe’s busiest air freight gateways: “A clear positioning towards quality and individual services is more important than ever for the cargo handler. “We consistently invest in innovative
processes and IT, and seek for a close communication line with all participants of the logistics chain to reduce handling times on the ground.” Hartmann added: “Rising costs and
worsening capacity bottlenecks require continuous optimisation of logistical processes to stay competitive.”
Emerging countries The implementation of modern cargo handling facilities with up-to-date IT systems in developing areas is vital in the emerging nations. Global IT solutions provider NIIT Technologies has successfully deployed its Cargo Operations Intelligent System (COSYS), a complete cargo management platform, to manage handling operations by Tan Son Nhat Cargo Services, at the Tan Son Nhat airport in Ho Chi Minh City, the southern gateway to Vietnam. According to an NIIT Technologies
spokesman, Tan Son Nhat Cargo Services uses COSYS to provide tailor-made e-freight compliant solutions for cargo handling agents and carriers that can be fully integrated with various airlines’ cargo reservations systems to simplify cargo handling processes.
Strong in Africa – as well as operating
at more than 131 stations in 29 countries worldwide – is UK- headquartered cargo handler Menzies Aviation. It serves over 500 customers handling over 800,000 flights and 1.7 million tonnes of cargo a year. “Delivering a consistent and reliable
operation, focused on meeting the needs of our airline customers, is at the centre of everything we do,” a Menzies spokesman noted.
“Any handling
agent is two steps removed from
mastering his own destiny”
Mark Whitehead Hartmann
“A clear positioning towards quality ... is more important than ever”
Giant grows worldwide India is a huge and commercially vibrant country that badly needs to modernise its airports, roads and whole logistics infrastructure to handle the boom in trade than it has seen. A few of India’s major gateways have
upgraded their capabilities and in the field of cargo handling Turkey- headquartered Celebi Holdings has an aggressive plan to expand its coverage both within India as well as further across the global arena, says Ramesh Hamidala, chief operating officer of Celebi India. Having built a 70,000m2
cargo
terminal at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International airport and in the final stages of a tender to run a major cargo terminal concession at Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji International gateway, “our problems in India in particular start outside the airport”, he said, in a country where the road infrastructure badly needs a massive upgrade. Nonetheless, it is in trucking cargo to major gateways that Celebi sees plenty of opportunity. “We want to start road
feeder services into Delhi, which will most likely take off in the next six months.
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