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Communities form the bedrock of civilization and have played a critical role in human evolution. Just as society benefits from the integration of different communities, so does the business world. Communities are not new to the airline industry. Reflecting the success of alliances from the passenger business, various commercially-driven communities also exist in air cargo. But non-commercially focused communities also exist, such as the working groups led by various industry bodies. As the scope of digitalization broadens and its pace accelerates, newer technology-driven communities have emerg...

Contactless technologies have evolved quickly over recent years in the constant drive to boost operational efficiency, reduce costs, and improve collaboration across value chains. With the onset of the pandemic, an additional health and safety layer came into play, which further accelerated touchless technology deployment. Given the many benefits obtained from this move and the behavioral changes it invoked, contactless is here to stay. People now expect low-touch technologies in their daily lives. And the good news is that increased vendors in the marketplace, emerging technologies, and new i...

Air cargo is an interesting business. The airplane was built, driven by man's inherent dream to fly. Yet on that first flight, there still was some space available in the cockpit after the pilot occupied the seat that could accommodate some letters to the dear ones, Airmail was thus born. Bigger planes followed with more capacity to carry people, their luggage and there still were available spaces for sending something more from origin to the destination and thus air freight was born. Airlines have been carrying air freight since that very first flight that carried letters, and almost every ai...

Pharma Logistics Tomorrow: How Your Business Can Capitalize In the previous two issues of our in depth series on pharmaceutical logistics, we've been exploring the rapidly growing and increasingly important issue of pharmaceutical logistics. In Part I of this series, we talked about the need for time-critical air transportation that has been created by increased globalization and the steady growth of the health care sector. In Part II, we revealed that there are some considerable data and infrastructure challenges that must be first be surmounted before the air cargo industry can confidently t...

Pharma Logistics: Facing the Challenges In the previous part of our series on Pharmaceutical Logistics, we revealed the growing demand for rapid and time critical transportation of key drugs in today's interconnected world. As the pharmaceutical industry continues to see consistent growth, air freight cargo operators have a great opportunity to leverage their competitive advantage to fill this need. In this article, we'll show you some of the unique challenges presented by pharmaceutical logistics, and then show you how advanced cargo management software can address many of these issues. Read ...