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Air Cargo Round Table

• Agenda for this session

– ICAO Presentation – GSF Presentation

• Selection of priority topics
• Current engagement with international partners

– Round Table Discussion

• Topics of interest to shippers and ICAO
• Opportunities for closer engagement

GSF Presentation

• Contents:
• Shipper priorities that require ICAO engagement

– Security standards to keep the supply chain moving – Dangerous Goods – Lithium ion batteries case study – Climate Change – MBMs (discussed earlier)

• Current international actions: GACAG
• Improving relationship with ICAO

Security – Helping supply chain efficiency

• Shippers’ associations can support ICAO by promoting standards that aim

to facilitate trade: Known Consignors, Regulated Agents, Consignment Security Declarations.

• “The final objective is to have 100 per cent of cargo and mail secure before

being loaded on to an aircraft” ICAO / WCO, Moving Air Cargo Globally

Dangerous Goods: Lithium ion batteries

• The ICAO National Council imposed an interim ban from 1 April

2016 on the carriage of all shipments of Lithium-ion batteries as cargo on passenger aircraft.

• It will remain in force until ICAO working groups agree a new lithium-

ion battery packaging performance standard, expected by 2018.

• This ignored recommendations of the ICAO Dangerous Goods

Panel in October 2015 to allow shipment on passenger aircraft if charged <30% of maximum & to limit to one package per consignment for certain types.

• GSF View:

– We support the DG Panel recommendations from 2015 – All parties should help address mis-declared shipments and counterfeits – ICAO should investigate screening equipment to detect LI batteries – More engagement with shippers would be helpful

International cooperation: Formation of GACAG

• GSF was a founder member of the Global Air Cargo

Advisory Group (GACAG) in June 2011 with – International Air Transport Association (IATA), – International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations (FIATA) – International Air Cargo Association (TIACA) to enhance the performance of the air cargo supply chain.

• Goal is to align efforts and to improve the effectiveness
• f our individual campaigning and lobbying activities

Plans for GACAG activities 2016-17

• Encourage industry to adopt e-freight procedures in all

areas where it is possible

• Publicise standards that are already available for air

cargo documents call on governments and regulators worldwide to support the adoption of e-Customs to facilitate e-freight

• Implement an industry action plan for advance cargo

information, particularly in aligning and use of existing standards within the World Customs Organization

Closer working with ICAO

• GSF has engaged with ICAO on a limited range of issues over the

past year: Climate change and lithium ion batteries.

• GSF met ICAO Secretary General Dr Fang Liu at the IATA World

Cargo Symposium in Berlin in March 2016 and opened dialogue – Areas of mutual interest identified so far – include the development of an air cargo freight index, – cargo security and facilitation, – air cargo delays, – e-commerce and liberalisation of air cargo.

• We are delighted to welcome ICAO to the GSF Annual Meeting

for the first time!