DHL Deutsche Post (DHL) and the IATA e-freight Cooperative Extension

Deutsche Post DHL (Deutsche Post DHL) today announced that it would with the International Air Transport Association (IATA) in cooperation in the industry in a global e-freight promotion program. Through the introduction of the program can reduce the number of paper documents. At present, the daily air 30 required documents have been 16 kinds of electronic data are being replaced by 2010, this number will increase to 20 species. Airlines will also benefit from the simplified benefit process.
Deutsche Post DHL Global Forwarding has been committed in the world to promote e-freight program. Although the global air transport market is not yet active, but still putting in a lot of manpower, financial and technological development of e-business. Currently, DHL Global Forwarding has been launched in 21 countries, e-freight services, cargo handling accounted for all the world's international cargo agents to handle electronic cargo volume 1 / 3 of the above, the network coverage of the world's 108 airport locations.
The implementation of e-freight plan can reduce costs, improve service efficiency, according to calculations, freight flow time reduced by an average 24 hours. E-freight is also able to effectively reduce the consumption of paper documents throughout the world each year to reduce consumption of paper documents of up to 7,800 tons, equivalent to 80 Boeing 747 cargo plane, the total weight, thus reducing carbon emissions, effectively protect the environment.