Airlink web-page offers 'unique' consol info

TRACK-AND-TRACE on the Internet on your own PC (personal computer).
That's a rather unique offer in the SA aviation scene, but one which SA Airlink Cargo International can now boast - in a Web-page offering designed for them by freight systems specialists, Compu-Clearing, and linked to that company's AWACS airline data-base.
When we decided Web-site, we had to have something that worked, said Airlink Cargo m.d. John Dickson. Not just something that sat there like a pretty picture.
The end result has been a combined graphic illustration of the company profile and history; a full listing of Airlink Cargo's international airline client book (including all detail like agents, schedules, destinations, aircraft), and its Web-page track-and-trace facility.
Live AWB (air waybill) enquiries, said Dickson. That's what we provide.
Once you enter the AWACS system, if you have the airline name and waybill number, you can follow every move of your consignment on your own PC.
Nobody else in the cargo handling trade - and this is the unique element to it all - can access a house waybill on a consolidated shipment. But our system can, and give clients all the information they need on their own part of any consol.
There's also an advantage for clients based in foreign lands. It gives these clients of ours access to a printed POD (proof of delivery) on each of their consignments, said Dickson.
SA Airlink Cargo International currently has all its international airline customers' imports to SA logged through its system, and is awaiting the imminent on-stream launch of export data from Compu-Clearing.
We are also preparing to soon go the bar-code route, said Dickson.