What Is Cargo Community System?
A form of single window trade, cargo community system is an electronic portal facilitating secure information interchange between public and private stakeholders. Investors such as freight forwarders, ground supervisors, carriers and customs in the Cargo Community System need to collaborate to build a competitive gain at international airports. Cargo community system is essential as irrelevant and inaccurate information can result in ineffective processes and other concealed costs like undue inventories.
Enhancing of these procedures and saving the budget are possible by sharing more data in the stock chain. International airports essentially require quick and reliable air cargo information systems. These solutions in turn aid the integration of trade procedures throughout the logistics chain and ease the relation between logistics and government processes.
Role of cargo community system
Common services of cargo community systems are:
- Enables the exchange of information between the conveyance operators in the airport and for the vicinity acquaintances, the airport employers, Customs, or other authorities.
- There is an automated exchange of cargo releases between private associates and government Customs.
- Customs declaration, Customs responses and digital handling of all information concerning import and export of freight for the airport community are electronically exchanged.
- Allows checking status information and tracking of cargo through the whole logistics chain.
- Cargo community system handles testimonies of dangerous goods with the liable authorities.
Generally most cargo community systems have their individual internal standards but communicate with other such trade systems by international air-specific standards.
Cargo community system in India
Air Cargo Agents Association of India has established an inclusive cargo community system known as UPLIFT that expedites information exchange over the entire Air Cargo Logistics chain. The problems of interaction of a supply chain participant with fellow associates in the logistics network can be overcome by this system.
This system has benefitted the air cargo industry, shippers, forwarders, airlines, custodians and other stakeholders. The introduction of airport community system, the freight data will go directly into custodian’s systems. Since there is a lot of congestion at the airports because of poor perceptibility of cargo before they arrive at the airports, with the aid of cargo community systems custodians can accept only confirmed consignments at the docks.
