The Air Cargo Agents Association of India (ACAAI), announced that its pioneering initiative - UPLIFT - which is an electronic collaboration platform for the Indian Logistics industry has crossed the significant landmark of 50 subscribers. Companies of all sizes ranging from SMEs to large organizations continue to choose the ACAAI promoted Cargo Community Platform - UPLIFT. This is a definitive step towards efficiency improvements in the Indian Logistics industry which is considered to be one of the most cost-inefficient industries with over 13% of GDP being spent on it.
UPLIFT is India's first Cargo Community System facilitating Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) amongst the various players in the Logistics Value Chain. This system will address the needs of Air, Ocean and Multimodal Cargo by connecting thousands of Indian Freight Forwarders and Custom House Agents electronically with each other and with other Cargo stakeholders like Airlines, Shipping Lines and Customs amongst others. At present the exchange of information across the value chain is mostly carried out manually. This gap has been impacting the bottom lines of most of the stakeholders involved in cargo movement including the forwarders, carriers, port/airport operators, customs house agents etc. UPLIFT is a common platform which can be accessed by multiple stakeholders for automating, facilitating and rationalizing the exchange of information and transactional processes. UPLIFT helps the stakeholders to stay ahead of all industry changes without changing their in-house systems, and comes without the hassles of upgrades and maintenance. |
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Source: transportweekly
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