IN A milestone development, Compu-Clearing and ZA-CCS have signed an agreement of co-operation.
The agreement was signed by Compu-Clearing m.d. Arnold Garber (right) and SAA Cargo executive manager Charles Fairweather, on behalf of ZA-CCS.
Forwarders connected directly to ZA-CCS will now be able to access directly airlines which are part of the Traxon stable. Compu-Clearing will now be able to access SAA via the ZA-CCS.
This amalgamation of the main data sources satisfies a long-standing need in the industry - the creation of a single post office for the receipt/despatch of any electronic mail related to airfreight industry information.
This has been vetoed up to now by two primary factors. The first was a reticence amongst a number of the major players in the forwarding sector for a private company to have access to - and thereby control of - all the information channels. The second was SAA's traditional desire to have its own control of the SA aviation industry.
But with so much of this previously exclusive information now readily available to all comers on the world wide web of Internet, all these barriers of exclusivity are falling away. There is no longer any danger of a single controlling entity, and the much desired one-stop post office shop in the airfreight information industry has become a welcome reality.
