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Hamburg Airport begins using DAKOSY
Air Cargo Community System
HAMBURG: Hamburg Airport says
it has adopted the FAIR@Link Air
Cargo Community System from
software developer DAKOSY at its air
cargo center, becoming one of the
first airports in Germany to use this
neutral, IT-supported system that
streamlines the process.
FAIR@Link enables all companies
i n v o l v e d i n f r e i g h t h a n d l i n g
processes—in particular handling
agents, forwarders, truckers and
airlines—to optimize and accelerate
their transport and freight processes
for both import and export. Customs,
security, dangerous goods and supply
chain management processes are also
supported, in many cases even
automated.
With the new system, Hamburg
Airport Cargo Center envisions to
shorten handling and wait times,
increase transparency along the
transport chain and also minimize
errors and costs by avoiding duplicate
entry of data. A particular advantage is
that the system prepares the Customs
release & can automatically transmit it
electronically upon entry into the
Hamburg Airport Customs area.
Another important aspect is the
Door Management System: as part of
the pilot project, time slots are
booked for the delivery of goods to
the air freight center. The delivery
company as well as the handling
partner of the airline can thereby plan
coordinated schedules for the delivery
of goods.
As a result, drivers can reduce wait
times on site and dispatchers can
more easily plan for necessary
capacities. It's also a step towards
protecting the environment: digital
processes use less paper.
“I'm pleased that we can implement
the pilot project at Hamburg Airport
Cargo Center together with our
experienced partner DAKOSY,”says
Alexander Müller, Head of Cargo at
Hamburg Airport. "I'm certain that the
standardized early data exchange
between the process participants
made possible by FAIR@Link will
create great added value for
everyone. The pilot project will
provide us with conclusive results for
the processes at our air freight
center."
UIrich Wrage, CEO of DAKOSY, is
also convinced that FAIR@Link will
make air freight processing at
Hamburg Airport even more efficient,
saying: “Through intelligent process
support and networking, FAIR@Link
provides the ideal basis for further
optimizing the physical processes
between companies involved in air
freight processing and for achieving
significantly faster and more
transparent processing.”
WASHINGTON DC: With space
exploration at an all time high, cargo
shipments to the International Space
Station (ISS) are also increasing.
On May 6, an unmanned SpaceX
Dragon cargo spacecraft arrived at
ISS to deliver nearly 3 tons of NASA
supplies to the orbiting laboratory
for its six-person Expedition 59 crew.
“We welcome to ISS the Dragon
SpaceXDragon cargo spacecraft
delivers 3 tons of supplies at ISS
spacecraft as part of the SpaceX-17
cargo mission,” Expedition 59 station
astronaut David Saint-Jacques of the
Canadian Space Agency radioed
Mission Control making the catch
with the station's Canadian-built
Canadarm2 robot arm.
S p a c e X D r a g o n c a r g o h a s
approximately 5,500 pounds of
N A S A c a r g o a n d s c i e n c e
investigations that include research
into Earth’s carbon cycle and the
formation of asteroids and comets.
D r a g o n w i l l j o i n fi v e o t h e r
spacecraft currently at the station. Its
launch comes on the heels of
robotics ground controllers in
M i s s i o n C o n t r o l H o u s t o n
successfully completing an operation
to remove a failed Main Bus
Switching Unit (MBSU) aboard the
space station and replace it with a
spare. The completion of the robotics
work marks the second replacement
o f a n M B S U n o t i n v o l v i n g a
spacewalk.
The space station continues to be a
critical test bed where NASA is
pioneering new methods to explore
space, from complex robotic work to
refueling spacecraft in flight and
developing new robotic systems to
assist astronauts on the frontier of
space. Technologies such as these
will be vital as NASA looks to return
astronauts to the Moon by 2024.