Top 10 things overheard in Dallas at IATA’s World Cargo Symposium

“We need to create small environments where stakeholders see the added-value immediately.”

Speaking on the Cargo Transformation track panel, Sara Van Gelder, the cargo and logistics development manager for Brussels Airport, discussed how new standards will be necessary to ensure that disjointed IT systems can interface with each other. Responding to the panel’s concern that small and medium-sized freight forwarders might fall behind without a standard for data exchanges, Van Gelder said, “The data elements and how to exchange will follow. I’m sure that by the time all of the communities are completely digitalized and paperless, there will be a language.”