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SURVEY Cargo Handlers


Hamidala


“Consolidation is a new idea in India””


handling activity within the warehouse environment. “The system, which is installed at a number of our locations, enables us to prioritise and plan the workloads, ensuring that we deliver optimum efficiency to our customers,” a spokesman remarked. One very satisfied customer at


We are also looking at setting up a consolidation station outside Delhi so that we can then bring unitised cargo from surrounding areas into Delhi by road. Consolidation is a new idea in India,” Hamidala outlined. Celebi is keen to invest in cool chain


facilities capable of handling the growing pharmaceutical market in India and it is bringing in automated cargo processing to help matters along. “It has been challenging and we are investing globally in the Hermes Cargo Management System,” he said.


Innovation Taking care of 1 million tonnes of cargo a year for more than 600 customers, Servisair Cargo has developed its own in- house Cargo Management System, which uses bar-code technology and hand-held terminals to manage its cargo


Servisair Cargo is Phil Rawlings, cargo manager UK and Ireland at Emirates Airline, who recently moved his operation back into a completely rebuilt warehouse at London Heathrow airport after the original Servisair Cargo facility on the same site had been completely destroyed by fire in June 2010. With all of his freight records and


information held off-site through the SkyChain cargo handling system developed by Dubai-based Mercator, Rawlings had been able to keep operations running with hastily-acquired new IT systems and through temporary warehouse space acquired by Servisair Cargo at London Heathrow. “The ability to discuss our problems


together with Servisair and airport operator BAA, and to have our concerns understood and acted on immediately, enabled us to keep flying cargo – even in the early days of the problem,” he noted.


ALM


Phil Rawlings


“The ability to discuss our problems ...


enabled us to keep flying cargo”


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