SHANGHAI Pudong International Airport Cargo Terminal Co Ltd (PACTL) has become the world's first air cargo facility to utilise for processing declarations the International Air Transport Association's (IATA) Dangerous Goods (DG) AutoCheck.
DG AutoCheck enables the air freight sector to verify along the supply chain the compliance of the shippers' Declaration for Dangerous Goods against IATA's Dangerous Goods Regulations, reported London's Air Cargo News.
'The introduction of DG AutoCheck is expected to further improve PACTL's DG acceptance accuracy and reduce checking process time,' said PACTL.
'As one of the busiest air cargo terminals in the world, PACTL advocates air transport security as paramount criterion in daily operation.'
The terminal operator continued: 'The DG AutoCheck supports functions of DGD online upload, checking the compliance of shipper's DGD, consignment package against latest IATA DGR.
The Autocheck tool enables electronic consignment data to be received directly. Optical character recognition technology also transforms a hardcopy of the DGD into electronic data. This data is then processed and verified automatically using the XML data version of the DGR.
DG AutoCheck also facilitates decisions to accept or reject a shipment during the physical inspection stage by providing a pictorial representation of the package with the marking and labelling required for air transport, IATA explained.
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DG AutoCheck enables the air freight sector to verify along the supply chain the compliance of the shippers' Declaration for Dangerous Goods against IATA's Dangerous Goods Regulations, reported London's Air Cargo News.
'The introduction of DG AutoCheck is expected to further improve PACTL's DG acceptance accuracy and reduce checking process time,' said PACTL.
'As one of the busiest air cargo terminals in the world, PACTL advocates air transport security as paramount criterion in daily operation.'
The terminal operator continued: 'The DG AutoCheck supports functions of DGD online upload, checking the compliance of shipper's DGD, consignment package against latest IATA DGR.
The Autocheck tool enables electronic consignment data to be received directly. Optical character recognition technology also transforms a hardcopy of the DGD into electronic data. This data is then processed and verified automatically using the XML data version of the DGR.
DG AutoCheck also facilitates decisions to accept or reject a shipment during the physical inspection stage by providing a pictorial representation of the package with the marking and labelling required for air transport, IATA explained.
WORLD SHIPPING