Free period reduced
from 72 hours to 48 hours in all Airports / Air Cargo Complexes in India w.e.f.
April 01, 2017.
This is no April Fool sort of news.
Please open the attachment for the copy of Notice received from Ministry of
Civil Aviation in this regard.
So, please discuss with your CHA’s to
clear the shipment within 48 hours which is applicable from the segregation
time reflected in ICEGATE.
Jupiter Sea & Air Services P. Ltd.
is well equipped with adequate manpower working in 2 shifts to help all our
customer’s to receive their air and sea import shipments within 2 days
usually.
In case you need our assistance for
custom clearance of your Air import shipments, please do send us your enquiries
and we shall help you to avoid demurrage and ensure your supply chain /
production is not interrupted.
Air Freight News :
Heathrow cargo growth outpaces
passengers.
· Heathrow Airport saw a 3% rise in cargo volumes for full year 2016
to 1.54m tonnes, attributing the rise to a £674m investment in the airport
and new services to Jakarta, San Jose, Santiago and Inverness.
The increase contributed to a 1.5% increase in earnings for the
airport’s operations as a whole, to £2.8bn from £2.7bn in 2015, with cargo
growth outstripping passengers, which were up by only 1%, albeit to a record
75.7m.
Chief executive John Holland-Kaye described 2016 as “a milestone year
for Heathrow” as the government announced its support for the long-awaited
third runway and launched a four-month public consultation on a National Policy
Statement.
He said: “I am very proud of what our 76,000 colleagues have achieved.
We helped British businesses across the country trade more with the rest of the
world.”
South African airports plan for an
upswing.
· Perishables
centre at Johannesburg’s OR Tambo International
Airports Company South Africa (ACSA) is taking steps to
ease congestion at the country’s major cargo gateways, particularly
Johannesburg’s OR Tambo International, it revealed at Air Cargo Africa.
Speaking after the show, OR Tambo International general manager Bongiwe
Pityi said that the airport wanted to expand warehouse space in the short term
and develop capacity through infrastructure improvements in the longer term.
She said that while air cargo tonnages are currently under pressure, new
infrastructure is needed to ensure that maximum advantage can be taken of the
next upswing.
Total air cargo processed through the gateway in 2016 was 350,500 tons,
about 10% down on the preceding year due to a fall in global trade. In spite of
this dip, Pityi said that cargo facilities are already operating at close to
capacity.
“The balancing act is to have infrastructure in place for when economic
conditions turn, but not so far in advance that it creates an unreasonable cost
burden,” said Pityi. “No one likes a white elephant, but it would be most
unfortunate if the infrastructure is not there when it’s needed most.”
Shippers want progress on air cargo
digitisation.
·
Lars Droog, head of supply chain and
general affairs for Tosoh Corporation
A new position paper from TIACA’s Shippers’ Advisory Committee
(SAC) has urged the air cargo industry to work together to drive adoption of
new technology to improve data flow and create greater transparency.
The paper, which
is supported by the Global Shippers Forum (GSF) and the European Shippers'
Council (ESC), identifies several short-term goals which include investigating
a logistics data backbone solution and which also champions innovative
technology such as smart labels and intelligent boxes as ways to increase
transparency.
“At the moment, the air cargo supply chain requires 21 documents to be sent
40 times, in 20 steps,” according to the SAC paper. "It is complicated, it
is expensive, it is outdated, it is slow.
“A decentralised open platform with a shared collaborative environment
would enable seamless integration and real time visibility over freight.
“We would be eliminating data re-entry and errors, instead having
first-time-right data, updated by real time events and maintained to reflect
one version of the truth.”
“This is a high level document which will start an important dialogue for
the industry,” said SAC chairman Lars Droog, head of supply chain and general
affairs for Tosoh Corporation.
“Each shipper faces different challenges and has different needs and, in
the coming months, we will explore these as part of the conversation. It is
only by working together that we will be able to get results and improve the
industry.”
SAC was formed last year and aims to bring the voice of the shipper to
existing discussions and initiatives, as well as spark debate on how to
innovate, be it adopting new process, or new technology.
E-AWB penetration down in January.
·
The latest figures from IATA show that
electronic air waybill (e-AWB) penetration declined in January compared with
December.
The latest e-AWB statistics show that penetration slipped to 48.5% in
January compared with 49.2% in December last year.
The volume of e-AWBs processed down in the month, with the industry using
639,582 e-AWBs in January compared with 687,774 in December.
The industry aims to have reached an e-AWB penetration level of 62% by the
end of the year. It is not the first time e-AWB usage has declined – in March
last year there was also a decline.
As part of the process to encourage further e-AWB adoption by airlines and
forwarders, IATA has launched an e-AWB implementation playbook in
pdf format, which presents the different steps to go through for successful
implementation.
The historic challenges to e-AWB implementation remain and include such
factors as e-AWBs are not possible in all airports and all trade lanes due to
regulatory limitations.
E-AWB procedures are not harmonised between freight forwarders, airlines
and ground handling agents in key airports where e-AWB is live.
