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The seventh edition of Air Cargo India, the<br />
most popular international air freight industry<br />
exhibition and conference, will place India as the<br />
global destination for trade and commerce and<br />
will strategise how air logistics will position India<br />
in the top league.<br />
2014<br />
2012 2016<br />
platform for industry professionals to<br />
network, discuss, develop and plan on<br />
new strategies that will propel the air<br />
cargo growth in the country.”<br />
The most popular Air Shippers<br />
Forum, first launched during Air<br />
Cargo India in 2014, with its focus<br />
on getting shippers from various<br />
sectors – primarily pharmaceuticals,<br />
automotive and high-tech, to the<br />
heart of discussions, will continue to<br />
address key concerns in commodityspecific<br />
supply chains. Brussels Airport<br />
will host the Pharma Shippers Forum,<br />
scheduled on <strong>Feb</strong>ruary 20, for the<br />
second consecutive time. Frankfurt<br />
Airport is the sponsor for the Air<br />
Shippers Forum, which will be held<br />
on <strong>Feb</strong>ruary 21.<br />
IBS Software Services has joined the<br />
event as the Silver and Track Sponsor. As<br />
a track sponsor, IBS will host the panel<br />
discussion “eCommerce retail - what air<br />
cargo can deliver” on <strong>Feb</strong>ruary 22. The<br />
panel will discuss the potential that the<br />
eCommerce sector offers and what air<br />
cargo industry can do to deliver speed<br />
and visibility.<br />
Miami International Airport (MIA)<br />
will host the track with the theme<br />
‘Industry collaborations enable efficient,<br />
intelligent & profitable air cargo supply<br />
chains’ scheduled for <strong>Feb</strong>ruary 22. The<br />
panel will deliberate on getting various<br />
stakeholders of the air cargo supply<br />
chain to collaborate. MIA is also a Silver<br />
Sponsor for the event.<br />
Unisys will host the inaugural panel<br />
discussion ‘Charting a new flight<br />
path for Indian air cargo as a global<br />
destination’ scheduled for <strong>Feb</strong>ruary<br />
21. The panel will attempt to place in<br />
context India as the global destination<br />
for the air freight industry both for<br />
inbound and outbound cargo.<br />
Schiphol Cargo, Europe’s third<br />
largest cargo gateway, will sponsor the<br />
track ‘Facilitating global trade - how<br />
air cargo is making it happen’. The<br />
discussion, scheduled for <strong>Feb</strong>ruary<br />
21, will deliberate on topics like how<br />
trade facilitation increases the value<br />
proposition of air cargo.<br />
Lufthansa Cargo will host the<br />
digitalization track with the theme<br />
‘Digitalization - Freight forwarding:<br />
Keeping pace with the evolving<br />
paradigms in the air freight industry’.<br />
The discussion, to be held on <strong>Feb</strong>ruary<br />
21, will focus on how increased<br />
digitalisation is enabling faster datadriven<br />
decision making in global trade<br />
and air cargo.<br />
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