Air Freight Solution is an innovative platform that eliminates errors, information loss, time, and costs through data digitization, generating greater efficiency and savings for the entire industry.Paperless, more agile, and faster. Air Freight Solution (AFS) brings technology to air freight processes, a sector that still has a long way to go in terms of innovation. This new platform aims to facilitate the exchange of documents throughout the logistics chain, streamlining work, reducing errors, increasing cargo traceability, and providing instant access to all information.Albert Fayos, Director of Logistics and Transport at GTD, the company developing the platform, states that AFS "facilitates the exchange of digital information for all stakeholders in the air cargo community through a single platform," meaning that "the first immediate benefit for all of them is the ability to share real-time monitoring of the cargo process—export and import—synchronized via electronic messaging, not paper forms."For this reason, AFS is a comprehensive tool that can be used by freight forwarders, who coordinate with importers, exporters, and airlines; by handling operators , who specialize in the management and handling of goods; and by carriers. UNINNOVATIVE SECTORAir cargo has been the sector that has evolved most slowly in technological change so far, and it still relies on paper documents, which often leads to errors or inefficiencies. In fact, according to IATA, shipping air cargo involves approximately 21 paper documents exchanged 40 times, something that new technologies could do faster, more efficiently, and more environmentally friendly, of course.Albert Fayos points out that GTD has been “working with the airport community for many years on various products and services, which has allowed us to gain a detailed understanding of the issues our customers face,” and adds that “for the development of the AFS platform, we have collaborated since its inception with a pilot group of companies in the aviation sector with whom we not only validate its operation but also discuss its evolution.”Air Freight Solution was born with the clear vocation of adapting to the needs of the market and, for this reason, it has created this pilot group made up of the freight forwarders Aduanas Pujol Rubió (APR), Airpharm Logistics, Nadal Forwarding and TIBA, the transport company Transjunior, the handling company WFS and the GSA Air Logistics Group (ALG) as a representative of the airlines' point of view. AGILE TOOLSpecifically, Manuel Boggiero, Project Manager at TIBA, asserts that "current marketed solutions for the digitalization of air transport processes are quite deficient" because "it's clear that they've been designed without taking into account the real problems of everyday life." Meanwhile, AFS is a "simple-to-use, very intuitive tool that allows companies to save costs by optimizing the time of operations staff and, very importantly, provides valuable information. In other words: you stop working for a system, and the system works for you.""In the short term, the benefits are obvious: digitization of essentially bureaucratic processes. In the medium to long term, it has a significant impact, allowing the transportation sector to be interconnected, with complete transparency and immediacy in information," Boggiero concludes. More information Source: La Vanguardia - Start-Up Business & Innovation
