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E-Freight Initiatives
When an air cargo shipment is booked, an extensive documentation chain is set in motion.
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When an air cargo shipment is booked, an extensive documentation chain is set in motion. E-freight initiatives replace this paper-based process with fully electronic data exchange across every party in the shipment chain—airlines, freight forwarders, customs authorities, and ground handlers connected through standardized, secure EDI channels. The result is fewer handoff errors, faster clearance, and measurably lower documentation costs. IATA's e-freight program established the principal framework for this standardization, with the air waybill (AWB) as the first document to be digitized end-to-end. The term refers specifically to standardized, cross-authority data exchange in air freight, not to general logistics digitization.
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