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Schiphol’s new tech aims to bust the truck queues

[ September 19, 2023   //   ]

Amsterdam Airport Schiphol and its partners, including handlers, truckers, and forwarders, have launched a Digital Planning initiative under its Smart Cargo Mainport Program.

It will optimize landside processes by drawing up a clear system of agreements that enable digital planning between handlers and air freight truckers, to reduce congestion.

Companies delivering or collecting at Schiphol must first request a time slot digitally through a central platform and, if granted can then go directly to a handler’s loading door.

Vehicles with unregistered freight will have to wait in a buffer parking lot with a reporting and calling system.

The process will be managed by trade organization Air Cargo Netherlands, along with a new central planning portal which will be built by Cargonaut and SmartLOXS.

Handling facilities will also be upgraded with decentralized capacity planning systems.

Vice chair of the ACN/FENEX Freight Forwarders Sector Council, Dimitri Brink, said: “Within the Smart Cargo Mainport program, the air freight industry has taken the steps necessary in recent years to digitize the supply and removal processes chain-wide.

“Digital Planning is the golden piece of the puzzle that should make waiting times at Schiphol a thing of the past once and for all.”

The airport’s head of cargo, Joost van Doesburg, adde: “With this combination of digitalization and chain process agreements, we save a lot of unnecessary waiting times and frustration for customers, we optimize the logistics process, and we make the supply and removal process of freight at Schiphol airport more sustainable.”

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