e-freight

Part of StB Cargo, e-freight is an industry-wide initiative involving carriers, freight forwarders, ground handlers, shippers, customs brokers and customs authorities. E-freight aims to build an end-to-end paperless transportation process for air cargo made possible through a regulatory framework, modern electronic messages and high quality of data.

The e-freight roadmap outlines a shared end-to-end industry approach to remove three types of documents:

• Customs documents: engaging regulators and governments worldwide to create an ‘e-freight route network’ with fully electronic customs procedures and where regulations support paperless shipments. 
• Transport documents: working collaboratively within the cargo supply chain to digitize the core industry transport documents, starting with the Air Waybill (AWB). 
• Commercial & special cargo documents:  developing a plan to digitize the commercial and special cargo documents typically accompanying airfreight today, in or outside of the ‘Cargo pouch.’

Objectives 

• Accelerating and supporting the adoption of e-AWB 
• Pushing for the adoption of Cargo-XML standards
• Testing the electronic version of the Shippers Declaration for Dangerous Goods (e-SDDG)
• Working with WCO and local customs authorities around the world to embrace e-customs , and encouraging the use of Cargo-XML standards for Advance Cargo Information (ACI)
• Improving data quality through the Message Improvement Program (MIP)