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Changing Landscape of Logistics: Fujairah Leads The Way
Air Pacific moves into the fast lane with FASTTRAC...
Emirates Skycargo launches Barcode Printing
Geologistics launches industry first in
the gulf
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Changing
Landscape of Logistics: Fujairah Leads The Way
The first ever Logistics Conference in Fujairah held at the Fujairah
Business Club on 22nd of February has been reported as being a great
success. The main theme of the conference was ‘Surging Supply Chain
Strategies: A vital Logistics Link to the east coast’. TransLogistique
Canada and French Vision jointly organized the conference, which was
sponsored by Fujairah Free Zone, Port of Fujairah and Fujairah International
Airport. Experts presented papers on a variety of logistics topics
that highlighted the role of Fujairah as a vital supply chain link
to the region.
Elaborating on the conference Philbhert Suresh, Consultant & Trainer,
TransLogistique Canada stated, “In such a dynamic scenario where the
key performance indicator depends on how well logistics is integrated
into the game plan of Fujairah, economic planning was the main concern
of experts participating at the conference. The topics ranged from
the logistics of the pipeline led by multinational oil companies to
containerization of multilateral trade in the region. Experts also
talked about collaborative planning, forecasting and replenishment (CPFR) in the networked economy.” As a destination, Furjairah has
the natural advantage as world’s second largest bunkering facility
in the world, second only to Singapore. A large potential trade is
up and running the transportation of aggregates to the rest of the
UAE and neighboring countries. The plan to implement the direct highway
link between Dubai and Fujairah with the expansion of road infrastructure
adds considerable value to the logistics of the region.
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Fiji’s international airline Air Pacific has become launch customer
for FASTRAC, the new revenue accounting solution from Mercator,
the IT division of the Dubai-based Emirates Group, with implementation
due to start next week.
FASTRAC has been designed specifically to meet the needs of small
and medium-sized airlines, and is being offered as a stand-alone
passenger or cargo revenue accounting solution, or as an integrated
system offering full functionality.
Air Pacific expects the implementation
to bring significant business benefits, supporting its ambitious
growth plans. Revenues will be realised quickly and accurately,
accounting costs will be reduced, productivity will be maximised
and commercial confidence enhanced.
Manoa Kamikamica, Air Pacific’s
GM Finance, says: “FASTRAC will allow us to keep a tight rein on
revenue accounting, which is vital to boosting our cash flow and
driving our growth plans to maintain Air Pacific as the dominant
regional player.
FASTRAC is a comprehensive
revenue accounting solution from Mercator's industry-leading RAPID
family of products. Sales, uplifts, peroration and interline billing
functionality provide swift revenue determination, accurate invoicing
and timely information which are vital to corporate decision making
today.
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Hugh Pride, Director IT at Mercator, said: “Combining
the functionality of FASTRAC
Passenger and FASTRAC
Cargo into one seamlessly integrated package will give
Air Pacific unrivalled functionality and benefits for
passenger and cargo revenue accounting -- the best of
both worlds.
“FASTRAC
can be implemented really quickly, and will allow
Air Pacific to automate its revenue accounting, speed
up cash flow, cut costs, prevent fraud, obtain timely
reports for decision-making and improve administration
-- all vital to competing effectively in commercial aviation
today.”
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Seen
at the signing at Air Pacific HQ in Nadi, Fiji are, seated:
John Campbell, Managing Director & CEO, Air Pacific
(left) and Hugh Pride, Director IT, Mercator. Standing,
from left: Mercator’s Shiraz Malik, Sales Manager and
Patricia Anne Eadon, Account Manager, with Air Pacific’s
Josephine Yee Joy, Executive GM Corporate Support and
Ranjan Naidu, Head of IT
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Posted
11th May '02
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Emirates cargo customers can now print barcode labels using the
latest functionality - BarCode Label Print
- to be added to the suite of services on SkyChain. It enables a
customer to complete his transaction from one location. The labels
are the standard IATA resolution 606 linear barcodes and can be
read by any scanner, which reads this type.
BarCode Label Print is all about helping the customers to
save time, costs, and to trade at any time at their convenience.
This facility is free of charge, gives added value to Emirates customers
and assists the airline to process freight more speedily.
It will also assist all ground
handling agents who have scanning capability to process freight
faster, thus speeding up the movement of goods by reducing the time
spent on the ground
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Barcode Label Print removes
the need to manually write the details on every pre-printed label
and dependence on the airline to provide them with a physical label
stock. They gain the ability have the goods ready for carriage outside
normal working hours.
Security is assured because
a ground-handling agent will screen the contents at the point of
acceptance and the barcode label does not print the flight number.
The
facility is open to all users accessing www.skychain.com.
The only information required is the air waybill number, the point
of origin and destination, the number of pieces and the weight.
The label can be printed on any printer.
Posted
23rd March '02
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Global logistics leader, GeoLogistics Corporation, one of
the world’s largest non-asset global logistics providers,
chose the Middle East to launch its new automatic tariff pricing
solution – Tariffs – at the 8th GeoLogistics Arabian
Partners Conference in Dubai.
An industry first, Tariffs
is a server-based Intranet portal offering instant pricing
24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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“Our constant self evaluation identified a missing element in our
service offering. In today’s logistics industry real-time information
is critical to any freight forwarding solution. As an industry we
have partly met this challenge through on-line ordering and freight
tracking services, but failed to remedy the issue of speed of return
on RFQs (request for quote),” said Steve Finch, CEO EMEA Region,
GeoLogistics.
“In our industry geographic
dispersion, different time zones and varying working week structures,
not to mention public holidays, severely reduces the window available
for effective communication. With the launch of Tariffs, the time
frame for the fulfillment of a RFQ has been reduced from, in some
instances, close to a week’s turn around to instantaneous responses.”
The first phase was rolled
out across the GeoLogistic’ internal network comprising Europe,
North America and Asia approximately 12 months ago. The result was
a 50 per cent increase in conversion of RFQs to business, which
prompted the company to expand the network to incorporate its exclusive
agents and blue-chip customers.
“We chose the Gulf
as the first stage of our global agency roll out due to our long
and close relationship with our agents in the region and the resilience
of the Middle East market in the current global economic environment,”
said Finch.
Tariffs allows
users to submit RFQs to move freight by either air or sea. Air freight
consignment delivery terms are broken into three categories - express,
priority or standard, delivery times taking one to two, two to three
and three to four days respectively. Term of ocean freight fall
into either express or standard and are based upon shipping timetables.
The new GeoLogistics
offering enables users to obtain price breakdowns by route or to
request exact pricing when a consignment’s weight and volume is
known.
Posted
7th March '02
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