it reaches its destination. The programme relies on authorities to implement a quality assurance process that ensures adherence to the standards outlined in the programme, and commit to change their regulatory framework once the pilot is implemented to test if the concept proves successful. The Secure Freight initiative could be portrayed as the industry’s offer of assistance, through the provision of templates and documents, best practices (standards and processes), disciplines and practical experience of what actually works in the world, to assist those countries and their authorities in securing their supply chains.
The tools, which include the Secure
Freight Standards Manual, Guidance Materials, Templates, Operating Procedures, proposed National Secure Freight Programme and Pilots, aim to address
deficiencies within existing
security cargo standards operated by Contracting States (i.e. those States contracted and obligated to implement
These programmes have complementing aspects of an air cargo security programme, including regulated agent and known consignor regimes which Malaysia wanted to introduce and test. The Secure Freight pilot implementation was encouraged and supported by the Ministry of Transport, Director General of the Department of Civil Aviation Malaysia and the Managing Director of MASkargo and the General Manager for Aviation Security MAHB. The pilot activities were overseen by a steering committee chaired by the Director of Security of the Department of Civil Aviation Malaysia and including the General Manager for Aviation Security MAHB, the Vice President Security of Malaysia Airlines and the Senior Vice President of Cargo Operations for MASkargo, with guidance from IATA Geneva and IATA Montreal Cargo and Security Departments. A working group with staff from these organisations participated in the development of the programme. The steering and working groups were later complemented with the participation of representatives from the
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...the challenge facing us now, in the middle of 2012, is getting the rest of the world to benefit from Malaysia’s investment of time, energy and resources...”
ICAO Annex 17), but which are either not doing so or not doing so adequately. Secure Freight also aims to provide a solution for those States who require assurance that inbound and transhipment cargo are adequately secured from the point of uplift.
Malaysia’s Secure Freight Pilot The Department of Civil Aviation of Malaysia, Malaysia Airports Berhad, Malaysia Airlines, MASkargo and IATA agreed to officially participate in, and embark on, a pilot implementation for Secure Freight in late 2008. What I don’t think any of the parties knew back then was the level of complexity and the size of the challenge ahead, nor the changes and adjustments we were to experience along the way. Yet, at the time of launch, we were all excited because no such undertaking had ever been done in the past by IATA nor by the Malaysian Civil Aviation authorities or their local partners. The programme extends and integrates the security of cargo from the point of leaving the shipper’s premises and standardises the rules in respect of standards of security required for cargo handling and loss prevention. Initially the team performed a comparison of various existing programmes and regulations at the local, regional and international level, including C-TPAT from US CBP, TRANSEC from the UK, EU regulations and the World Customs Organisation’s Safe Framework of Standards amongst others.
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forwarding agent Malaysia’s DGF (DHL Global Forwarding) and the shipper, Intel.
Purpose, Scope and Lessons Learned from the Malaysia Pilot
The Malaysian pilot was the first one to be undertaken. Thereafter other locations around the world were to follow suit. The objective of enabling all the pilot implementations was to test the effectiveness of the various National Secure Freight Programmes, the Secure Freight Standards Manual & Guidance Materials, Secure Freight Standard Messaging Operating Procedures, definitions, templates and tools, in diverse security environments.
“...dysfunctional development of regulation cannot be solved by regulators alone...”
The lessons of the Malaysian pilot have enhanced the Malaysian National Secure Freight Programme and were used in the subsequent pilot implementations planned by IATA in the 2011-2013 period. The expansion of the pilot network is envisioned as a potential opportunity to link some of these locations and later the transhipment of air cargo. Current on-going pilot implementations include Kenya and Mexico, whilst the kick-offs in Chile and the United Arab Emirates are being planned to take place before the end of this year. The Secure Freight operators in Malaysia
were required to provide Local Operating Procedures (LOP) to the Civil Aviation Authority for their revision and approval, and a gap closure of the findings was also required. All participants of the pilot had to undertake a self-assessment exercise which included the development of new documentation, programmes and/or processes, the execution of infrastructure enhancements, IT programming and other activities which the CAA identified along the way.
The gap analysis was the first critical step in formulating the policy document as this identified the regulatory and process gaps and the identification of procedures and policy required to close the loopholes. During the gap analyses, most of the time was spent on the drafting of the National Secure Freight Programme and for each of the stakeholders a Policy Document and LOPs, for which a substantial amount of manpower resources were required by the members of the working groups in Malaysia. Where practical, Secure Freight
requires security information to be transmitted electronically, consistent with the industry's e-freight proposition that includes the proposed
e-Cargo
Secure Freight Malaysian team with IATA Secure Freight project team, left to right: Ozulkifly, David Sterland (IATA Consultant), Ahmad Fahmi Awang, Darry Tan, Mohd Hafiz Salleh, Mujib Ali, Carolina Ramírez-Taborda (IATA AD Secure Freight), Maarif Maarof, Joanne (IATA link), Suraidah Rejab
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