Taking a pioneering step in participating Cathy Pacific Cargo’s One Record System.

A new, single digital standard for air cargo that offers end-to-end data transparency and contains everything needed to make digital cargo a reality. This 21st-century solution came one step closer with Cathay Pacific Cargo’s successful trial of IATA’s ONE Record standard in Hong Kong last month.

ONE Record is set to become the new global standard for air cargo. It creates a Virtual Shipment Record for all shipments, a single record view of a shipment that will enable its data to be shared by all stakeholders across the air cargo chain.

Henk Mulder, Head of Digital Cargo, IATA said: ‘The ultimate aim of the ONE Record programme is to enable a data-led digitisation of the global supply chain in order to improve service, speed and reliability, through the standardisation of competing or overlapping systems of the different stakeholders in the air cargo industry into one of shared intelligence and cooperation.’

The pilot, which was run in conjunction with Cathay Pacific Cargo and Hong Kong International Airport, saw three agents – DHL Global Forwarding, Sinotrans (HK) Air Transportation Development Co Ltd and Soonest Express (HK) Co Ltd – contribute shipments using a web-based API (application programming interface) platform developed by Global Logistics System (HK) Co Ltd (GLS).

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