Since 29 March this year everyone in logistics can work with iSHARE. This unique agreements system makes sharing data more effi cient, easier and faster, also in air cargo. General Director Nanne  Onland of Cargonaut is working closely with the airport and Customs on establishing a new data cooperative for the air cargo community at Schiphol. He calls on parties to work together with iSHARE. “We are going to have to digitalise further to be able to effi ciently use the limited capacity we have here.”

Suppose an air cargo carrier such as KLM Cargo submits an import declaration to the Netherlands Customs. The declaration receives a status report from Customs that is of interest not only to KLM Cargo but also to the other parties in the supply chain. Think of the shipper who gave the order for the shipment, or the handling agent, transporter or recipient of the shipment in the Netherlands. They could adjust their planning as soon as the status report shows that the shipment has been cleared and therefore may be transported. However, Customs may only issue this status report to the party submitting the declaration. In this case that would be KLM.

The Schiphol Data Cooperative that is being established at the moment and iSHARE can help change this. Participants in this agreements system, such as KLM Cargo and Customs, can far more easily exchange status reports and other data between themselves. And thanks to iSHARE, also share these data with unknown parties further down the chain. “This is one of the many use cases that we have set up together with iSHARE and various other parties. Now that iSHARE is ready for use, it is time to put it all into practice”, says Nanne Onland of Cargonaut, that, together with KLM Cargo as co-creator partners, has been involved from the start in the development of iSHARE.

Authorisation
iSHARE is an initiative of the Top Sector Logistics to make data sharing in logistical chains more efficient, cheaper and faster. Until now data sharing has often been restricted to parties who know and trust each other. This is no longer sufficient for today’s digital supply chains, let alone the future’s. Take a shipper who uses a forwarder for an airfreight shipment. The forwarder will make use of parties that the shipper does not know and often does not need to know. But the shipper will certainly want to know how far these parties are in handling his shipment. He wants to be able to follow his shipment and pass this information on to his customer who is sitting waiting. iSHARE facilitates this process.

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