Neutral Air Partner, the global network of specialists in airfreight industry, officially launched. ACEX alliance represents interests of the Russian logistics companies in the system among 130 companies which are the experts in the airfreight industry from 70 countries of the world. The network aims to inject a great degree of advanced air cargo expertise into the logistics industry, revive specialization, and to drive buying power across the supply chain .
The network was presented on the first conference of Neutral Air Partner in Abu Dhabi in September, 2016. The event was attended by over 100 top managers from airfreight industry, including representatives of AirBridgeCargo, Ethihad Cargo, Astral Aviation, Descartes, ACEX Alliance, etc. The participants indicated development trends of the international airfreight market.
Georges Biwer, the vice president of Air Bridge Cargo informed: “It was a refreshing event also from airline prospective in regards to the quality of the delegates gathered from around the globe, the industry expertise in airfreight, and consequently the buying power such a group of smaller sized market players can bring to a carrier. The innovative approach, linked with a platform of air cargo community tools tool can deliver added value to the supply chain, and differentiate themselves from the mass”.
In the present situation of information technologies development and digital forms of data exchange in the logistics the airlines felt necessity to cooperate not only with each other but also with forwarding companies, sales agents and road freight agents for the purpose of formation of the unified standards of services for trade traffic flow maintenance.
NAP provides such cooperation on the base of the information platform. ACEX provides the Russian companies with possibility to become the participant of the network or to be their representative in NAP.