Cathay Cargo has become the first airline to integrate the international air transport records data protocol (IATA) in its daily operations, a long time before the goal at the level of industry in January 2026.
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Cargo Airline started using one record in December 2024, in partnership with three Chinese Sinotrans Air Freight, Weccan International Freight Forwarding, Coll-Link Logistics- to exchange the electronic air air (EAWB) and the shipment status data via an interface to advance advance applications. Through an advanced application programming interface.
In January 2025, the development of air transport in Sinotrans Hong Kong Air Transfection became the first Hong Kong pensioner to adopt the system, allowing tracement in actual time. One record is designed to enhance comprehensive transparency in air cargo, providing a unified digital interface to exchange smooth data through trucks, airlines, warehouses and customs authorities.
The initiative replaces the systems of traditional goods exchange procedures (CIMP), allowing more richer data visions such as temperature and tracking geographical location by solving the superior path in Cathy charging and envirotainer.
This achievement is one year before the target iATA date to implement one record, which is scheduled to be held in January 2026.
One record of IATA is designed to make charging information related to the owners of interest visible and accessible before, during and after the transfer process.
The initiative provides transparency from one side to the tip of shipments, and registration of progress as it passes through multiple links in the truck chain from the charger to the agent, airlines, warehouses and legal authorities such as customs, and follow IATA protocols for the interface-interface-applications program Data in a safe way.
Sinotrans has downloaded EAWB information through one record through a specialized digital interface coordinated and designed and hosted by an innovation partner in Cathy Sharp, Global Logistics System (GLS), which also designed other digital projects for click click settings and ships, online reservation platform In Cathy Cast.
This call enables all stakeholders in the shipping process to extract the richer data from one record until after the standard departure and access data derived from the CIMP (making a message of exchange of goods), the standard connection link between the airline and wing company.
With one record, multidimensional data can be accessed from the superior path of the next generation of Cathay Cargo, such as temperature and geographical positioning, and the same applies to data from data transmission devices with environmental packages, especially the Envirotainer package.
“These successful realistic use cases show the continuous commitment to Cathay Cast to take a leading role in digitizing the process of charging the air freight. We are in a good position to meet the goal of implementing the IATA record in January 2026.”
“The technical ease of align our main customer systems using one record protocols with application programming facades highlights that there is nothing to fear in making change and a lot of operational efficiency, enhancing security and greater transparency of the total shipping process.”
“We are happy to be the first shipping guidance to shine with Katai in offering one record of data connection. This innovative approach will revolutionize our operations, enhance efficiency and transparency in cargo shipping operations.”
“All of this data has no meaning except when looking together, in the context of one shipment. The IATA data sharing data criterion provides an infrastructure for smart data where the data is linked to a vast and central network where it can The stakeholders have securely related data, and they receive relevant updates to pay their transfer operations and logistics.
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