Back: Shu Yin Tan, Regional Cargo Manager, Asia Pacific, IATA Singapore, and Carolina Ramírez-Taborda, IATA AD, Secure Freight Front: Fazillah Harris, Intel Malaysia
which I wish to focus on last, but certainly not least. After all, the programme would be meaningless if it was just a pilot and no change established thereafter.
Regulatory Aspects
The most important outcome and benefit in the medium to long term for a State undertaking a Secure Freight pilot implementation is the potential recognition of these efforts by another State to which their exports will be destined. The huge efforts the Malaysian Civil Aviation Authority undertook, with the support of the rest of the pilot stakeholders, were the necessary steps to ensuring that Malaysia updated its regulatory framework thereafter, to enable its domestic and
international air shipments to flow, unimpeded, from one end of the supply chain to the other. Yet, regulatory frameworks do not change in the short term, even if the political will is there to undertake it. It goes through many obstacles, but the focus has been kept intact. 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 and, thereby, continue along the road to the establishment
of a mature and robust international air cargo regime.
The goal will have been achieved once the measures that Malaysia has put in place reassure international trading partners that shipments can arrive and transit through their States without the need for further inspection as the threat has been negated at the point of uplift.
Secure Freight: What’s Next? IATA will seek the global recognition of Secure Freight principles. The efforts have been pursued with regulators that currently have effective and robust air cargo supply chain security programmes, and from them, Australia and the UK have confirmed already that the Secure Freight initiative
shares the same principles as their own national programmes and that they see value in Secure Freight building capacity in States that are either starting or enhancing their current air cargo security programmes. Our next steps include having Secure
Freight undergo similar assesment by, and continue the dialogue with, the Transportation Security Administration in the US, Transport Canada, the World Customs Organisation and the European Commission, to ensure Secure Freight standards can become a solid baseline of international air cargo security measures. In addition to the efforts being pursued for the recognition of Secure Freight principles, IATA will also encourage States with mature and robust supply chain security programmes, to nourish in-depth collaboration and the sharing of know-how from one State to another and especially in promoting regional collaboration. The ICAO Regional Offices from Kenya and Mexico have been key and very supportive of the subsequent Secure Freight implementions in both those countries. As aforementioned, Chile and the UAE
are set to kick off later in 2012, and new locations being considered are Brazil, South Africa and China.
Carolina Ramírez-Taborda is the Assistant Director of Secure Freight with the International Air Transport Association (IATA).
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