The Civil Aviation
Authority of Singapore (CAAS) and the Infocomm Development Authority of
Singapore (IDA) selected three consortia on March 15, 2012 to manage paperless airfreight
processs as part of the e-freight@Singapore programme.
The Three consortia which include shippers, freight forwarders and ICT
vendors, are Innosys Pte Ltd (Solution Name: “e-freight@Singapore Integrating
the Air Cargo & Logistics Supply Chain”), Kewill Pte Ltd (Solution Name:
“Kewill Electronic Shipment Processing”), and Visiflex Pte Ltd (Solution Name:
“Visiflex Cargo Cloud - VCC”).
The three solutions totalling over S$4 million (US$ 3.18 million) will
link stakeholders in the air cargo supply chain electronically by integrating
ICT systems, business processes and data.
The three solutions will use inter-operable platforms and standards for
data exchanges, giving shippers and freight forwarders wider choices of
solutions.
The three consortia responded to the CFC in early 2011 and will develop
their solutions over a period of up to one year. Sessions are planned to
introduce these solutions to the industry. By 2013, the consortia will pilot
deployment among their members before the solutions are rolled-out to the
industry no later than 2014.
Mr Yap Ong Heng, Director-General, CAAS, said “This implementation will
lead to enhanced productivity of the entire air cargo and logistics supply
chain.”
According to an Air Freight Process Productivity Study commissioned by
CAAS, it was found that implementing e-freight@Singapore will potentially
achieve significant cost savings of S$18.4 million (US$ 14.62 million) and
improve overall productivity by 1.7 million man-hours annually at the national
level, he added.
The e-freight@Singapore programme aims to take the paper out of the air
cargo process and replace it with electronic data and messages through the use
of ICT. It seeks to capture data entered at source by shippers, and transmit
the data electronically for re-use along the inter-connected supply chain
involving other stakeholders such as freight forwarders, government agencies,
airlines, and ground handlers.
Today, air cargo still relies heavily on paper - an airfreight shipment
typically generates up to 30 documents. The processing of these documents adds
to the cost and transport time of air cargo shipments.
“IDA is pleased jointly develop solutions that will integrate the
entire air cargo supply chain. The capture and re-use of electronic information
at source and elimination of manual entries across multiple systems will raise
overall industry productivity,” said Mr Ronnie Tay, CEO of IDA.
The open and interoperable solutions, leveraging on infocomm
technologies, will offer greater flexibility for the industry to also integrate
with various business partners, inserted Tay.
According to the Singapore Air Cargo Agents’ Association (SAAA) and the
Singapore Logistics Associations (SLA), forwarders will benefit from the
programme through better visibility to track shipments and enable greater data
accuracy as it is re-used from source documents. The electronic data re-use
also significantly reduces paper documentation, eases regulatory compliance
processing and increases overall security.
Thanya Kunakornpaiboonsiri
futuregov.asia
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