A platform that delivers the need for speed!

IN THE express cargo niche, time is everything, and even a single second can snowball into a day’s delay, which is why you need to make time work for you. “The essence of express cargo is speed,” says chairman of Compu-Clearing Arnold Garber. “You need a system that is fast and functional to get cargo cleared by the end of the day, otherwise it goes onto the pile for the next day, defeating the whole purpose of using an express service.” A number of websites and online tools are HTML-based, a language used for building websites that display text and images on the internet. “When you are working with pictures and tables and text, a webpage can take a while to load, especially in this country where we battle with bandwidth, so HTML is not ideal for anything urgent,” Garber explains. “We use Telnet, which doesn’t have pretty pictures, but it is so simple that its response time is almost instantaneous.” Garber says that his Telnet-based platforms are 30-40 times faster than those based on HTML. “And when you are sitting waiting for a page to load, a second becomes a very long time,” Garber adds. “98% of flights coming in are overnight flights, and the peak time for one of our clients is 4am,” Garber said. “If there is a problem, they phone me, so the system needs to be stable and just do its job. Pretty pictures don’t concern me at that time of the morning.”