FTW pick: Legal intervention needed to gather airfreight stats

The next step towards filling an historical gap in SA’s airfreight market stats is likely to be a legislative one, according to Alwyn Rautenbach, director of cargo for Airlink Cargo and chairman of Air Cargo Operators Committee (Acoc).

Acoc is one of the three bodies, along with the Airports Company of SA (Acsa) and the SA Revenue Service (Sars), busy creating for the first time a monthly statistical analysis of SA’s airfreight market.

An early step in the plan, devised a year ago, was the choice of Acsa as the compilers of the data – with stats from Acoc and Sars forming the first data base. This was followed by a decision on how the relevant figures could be most easily separated out and recorded under the appropriate title bar.

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