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Domodedovo moves on with e-Freight process
Moscow Domodedovo’s airport has started preparations for the next implementation phase of its e-Freight system. The execution, which involves electronic document flow elements relating to transfer cargo flights, is the airport’s next step towards the paperless process. This has become possible through an electronic signature received earlier by the Domodedovo Cargo temporary storage warehouse. The pilot project of e-Freight implementation started in Russia in 2012, and has been run on public/ private partnership principles ever since. In Domodedovo, system algorithms were checked for the first time in August 2012 on a transit flight of AirBrigeCargo; and by the end of February 2013, the airport had already successfully served 22 transit flights, with electronic document submission by air carrier to customs.
Domodedovo actively supports the implementation of electronic document flow: the airport specialists took part in the meeting of an inter-agency working group on e-Freight implementation in Russia, which took place on February and which brought together representatives from the aviation sector and government institutions.
Japanese benefitting from new platform from SITA
Japan Airlines is reducing passenger queues and increasing its flexibility with SITA’s common-use passenger processing platform, AirportConnect Open. SITA has delivered the new platform to seven Japanese airports as part of a five-year agreement. SITA is also providing Japan Airlines with fully-managed services and a total of 169 integrated common-use workstations across Fukuoka, Sendai, Niigata, Komatsu, Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Okinawa airports. Keiichiro Sato, Vice President and Deputy Manager of JAL, said: “We have collaborated with SITA for more than 50 years and are pleased to extend our partnership to this part of our business. SITA’s AirportConnect provides us with a platform to manage our applications effectively across all seven airports. This will help us provide more consistent passenger processing and give us the flexibility to cope with peaks in passenger traffic. With SITA’s fully- managed services, we can also better manage our costs and budgets.” Ilya Gutlin, SITA President Asia- Pacific, added: “Airlines, airports
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and governments have increasingly complex requirements. They need to improve passenger processing, reduce congestion, and better manage passenger flows. We are collaborating with JAL to support all these needs through the successful deployment of AirportConnect Open.”
AirportConnect Open helps airlines save money by allowing them to use their applications on the CUTE infrastructure. It also helps airports increase revenues and save time and resources by maximising the use of check-in counters and gate resources. It is future-proofed to support CUPPS, IATA’s common use standard for agent- facing common-use implementation at airports. SITA has provided CUTE services at
Japan’s Kansai airport since 1994 and at Chitose airport since 2010. More than 300 airlines use SITA’s AirportConnect Open to process millions of passengers every day in more than 400 airports worldwide.
Kazan embraces cloud-based check-in from ARINC
US-based ARINC has been awarded a new contract for vMUSE Enterprise at Kazan airport, a rapidly growing regional airport located in Tatarstan, in Russia. Under the contract, ARINC will work with Integris, an IT services company that provides services to several Russian airports, to deliver a fully managed vMUSE Enterprise solution to Kazan at the airport’s recently constructed Terminal 1A. The initial system will consist of approximately 40 workstations.
vMUSE Enterprise is the only truly cloud-based, common-use check- in platform in the industry. Moving software functions that were formerly on the airport user’s workstation into virtual machines coupled with the high resilience of the ARINC data centre provides a secure solution for mission- critical applications. Airports that use vMUSE Enterprise have significantly reduced operating costs by eliminating the need for on-site server hardware and core rooms, and their ongoing maintenance. Other benefits include lower energy consumption, a smaller space requirement, increased flexibility to increase or decrease the number of workstations as required and a significantly reduced roll-out time.
Progress in Russia for CargoWise
CargoWise, a specialist in technology solutions for logistics service providers, has announced a successful start to
the distribution partnership with ERP specialists RBC Group: this began in January this year. With several new customers already signed up in Russia and the Ukraine, RBC is planning to double the number of staff dedicated to the CargoWise account within the quarter.
In the past three months alone, RBC has signed a number of new customers, including Russia-based TGL, Ukrainian door-to-door logistics specialist Olimpac and warehousing and transport specialist EuroExpress Mail.
Another French win for XOPS
Groupe Europe Handling has chosen the XOPS solution to monitor its cargo handling activities in real time. The Groupe Europe Handling subsidiary dedicated to ramp handling of both cargo and postal pallets and containers had been evaluating different options for increasing efficiency and cost saving. Since March 2013, though, the handler has been running the XOPS system in over 30 of its airport vehicles. By linking all relevant airport data in real time, it allows the supervision of movements of all GSE. This is achieved by the installation of an electronic tag, which is embedded in the vehicle. Thus the system can not only monitor and maximise the management of human resources but also control the flexible automatic operations surrounding the loading and unloading of ULDs. According to XOPS’s Jean-François Bouilhaguet, the application encourages both savings and efficiency whilst allowing a full transparency of the handling operation.
In brief
ARINC has been appointed to implement multiple airport systems at the Port Moresby International airport in Papua New Guinea. ARINC’s airport IT solutions will be deployed in both the International and Domestic Terminals as part of the airport’s aim to modernise the passenger processing system and enhance the passenger experience. Port Moresby International airport is also planning to build a new International Terminal to handle growth in passenger traffic. The new terminal is expected to be completed in time for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting that is to be hosted in Papua New Guinea in 2018.
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