By Ariaen Zimmerman, Executive Director, Cargo iQ This recent year has turned out to be again a busy one for Cargo iQ and has seen us launch various new initiatives and new members join the fold. Last month, we saw our members attend a very successful working group in Kuala Lumpur, where, for the first time, we worked in our new result focused SMAMS approach. In this SMAMS approach, all our activities explicitly address their implementation aspects for our Specifications, MOP

By Ariaen Zimmerman, Executive Director, Cargo iQ At our recent board meetings and our working group in Kuala Lumpur, Cargo iQ adopted two new projects: Care Mapping and Service Parameters. Both are very exciting, important projects for our membership and we look for companies to participate in pilots, both inside and outside the Cargo iQ community. Through these pilots we want to learn more on how to best implement our ideas into real industry standards and processes. Care M

Cargo iQ has had a busy and interesting year welcoming changes to its membership board, adding members and launching a new solution for small and medium size freight forwarders. In May, Cargo iQ announced a change in leadership of its membership board with representatives from Emirates SkyCargo and Kuehne + Nagel taking two key positions. Henrik Ambak, Senior Vice President of Cargo Operations Worldwide at Emirates SkyCargo, was appointed Chair and Kerstin Strauss, Vice Presi

AirBridgeCargo Airlines and DB Schenker collaborated to win the latest stage of the Cargo iQ Q-Rally challenge after improving the data quality of shipment reports from Russia to Schengen Agreement countries. The Q-Rally is an initiative to encourage Cargo iQ members to work together with their business partners to identify specific issues to be worked on and monitor the progress before presenting at Cargo iQ working groups. AirBridgeCargo Airlines and DB Schenker were declar