CHAMP Cargosystems, the world’s only IT company solely dedicated to air cargo, has joined the IATA e-freight initiative

23 April 2007

The initiative, which could deliver projected savings of $1.2 billion annually, is designed to eliminate the need to produce and transport paper documents for air cargo shipments by moving to a simpler industry-wide paper-free environment.

Short term, the aim is to replace air carriage paper documents with electronic documents, using electronic data to eliminate the hundreds of millions of paper air waybills and house waybills produced each year. As the project develops, certified and verified digital documents will replace other shipping documents such as letters of instruction, packing lists, invoices, certificates. These can be printed when required for regulatory purposes by national authorities.