TIACA delegates have been saying at the association's professional development workshop that strategic alliances across the supply chain and time-definite deliveries would boost the air cargo industry.
Bringing stakeholders, from handling agents, airlines, forwarders to GSAs together enables better collaboration in what is a fragmented industry, it was said, reported London's Loadstar.
"One of the ideas discussed was forming strategic alliances, which could give the industry a tremendous boost," said executive director of SASI, the organisers of the course, Stan Wraight.
"Panalpina made the point that, actually, air freight generally delivers in eight days. But if you formed an alliance across handlers, forwarders and airlines, you could create a new first-class product, and have a three-day transit time.
Another concept for discussion was the launch of a slower, but time-definite product. Using off-airport facilities, warehouses could be operated by a consortium, with space available for several forwarders, allowing airlines to draw cargo from the facility whenever there was capacity available.
"It might have a 10-day transit time, but with cargo off-airport, it would knock cost out of the equation," said Mr Wraight.
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