Top 5 cargo communities improve supply chain speed, accuracy

Air Cargo Community at CargoCity, Frankfurt Airport

This thriving community in Germany includes freight forwarders, airlines, cargo handlers and other service providers from all sectors of the cargo process chain at Frankfurt Airport. The airport’s cargo community system, which has about 50 members, helps “to improve cooperation between all companies along the supply chain within CargoCity,” said Patrik Tschirch, executive at Air Cargo Community Frankfurt. The association has three competence groups “Temperature-controlled Transport”, “Processes & Infrastructure” and “Location Marketing & Community Building”, as well as various specialist groups which represent the entire range of services offered at the airfreight location of Frankfurt.

The community is now unifying the registration process for truck drivers at FRA, which will help reduce the coordination effort between haulers, forwarders and handling agents. Kai-Oliver Schocke, a professor at the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, citing scientific research conducted at FRA’s CargoCity since 2013, said that he expects FRA to save “ten minutes per truck by digitizing the check-in. With more than 1,000 trucks that arrive on a daily basis at the airport, this means significant time saving and reduction of costs.”