Oh – the new year 2022 has not only started, but we are already well into the first Quarter of 2022. Time to present you with our new edition of inSight. The humanitarian crisis due to the situation in the Ukraine puts a lot of things in our life into a totally different perspective and suddenly all priorities which had been so important earlier had to be re-aligned. We are fully aware that many of our readers are very busy now, tackling challenges that simply didn’t exist ev

Ajay Barolia, Senior Manager – Regional Cargo Operations Manager – Europe, Qatar Airways, explains the airline's proactive efforts as a member of Cargo iQ and the organization's valuable role in the sector. Qatar Airways joined Cargo iQ in 2009, and I joined the Board a decade later in 2019. Right now, we are working with Cargo iQ on implementing a standard of measurement at product level in order to provide our customers with more relevant information. We are also preparing

Following sub-Working Group meetings hosted at the end of 2021, Cargo iQ is celebrating several technical improvements to its Quality Management Programme. Three new messaging standards have been developed to support the implementation of new milestones, the indication of milestone failure reasons and the communication of requested and confirmed shipment service parameters. The FIW (Freight into Warehouse) and FOW (Freight out of Warehouse) milestones have been added to the r

ENCORE, Cargo iQ’s system to enable offset management, has also received recent upgrades to make provisions for the two new milestones that were added to routemaps: FIW (freight into warehouse) and FOW (freight out of warehouse). A previously unavailable function for the bulk download of offset data has been added, to enable users to download and their data and work on it offline. An upload function is currently in development, to enable users to re-upload their data to ENCOR

New technical developments and quality refinement drive further improvements for the air cargo industry Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday 16th March 2022: Cross-stakeholder organization Cargo iQ has made key updates to its Quality Management System (QMS), adding a Visibility Maps function and new milestones to its Route Map Planning as it celebrates 25 years of operation. Cargo iQ Route Maps, which enable the journey of an air cargo shipment to be planned and monitored, could un