E-Freight BCN aims to be a Cargo Community System (CCS), similar to what is known in Maritime as PCS.
The project consists of developing and setting up a group of functionalities related to the Departure of Goods by air and others related to the Arrival of Goods by air into operation.
The purpose of e-Freight BCN project is to integrate all the transactions associated with air cargo carried out at Barcelona Airport involving main agents of air cargo processing in a single digital platform:
- Airline Companies (AC).
- Handling Operators (HO).
- Road Hauliers (RH).
- Forwarders/Customs Agents/AEO’s (TR).
- Facilitators needed: Air Customs (AD) and Border Inspection Agencies (BIS).
The ultimate goal is a paperless system.
Given the complexity of the final objective, the total functionality has been distributed in consecutive phases:
- Initial Phase:
- Pilot Stage of the Outbound Process of Goods by Air.
- Telematics Air Cargo Knowledge Management (e-AWB).
- Telematics management of the Order of Transport of the goods to the Handling Operator.
- Notification of arrival of goods to Operator Handling for Air Departure.
- Medium Term Phase:
- Withdrawal of goods to Operator Handling.
- Levante Paperless for goods (removal of goods that have arrived by airplane at Operator Handling).
- Consultation of Customs Status of the goods (“dated”)(“datados”).
- Booking at Airline Company.
- Coordination of Customs/SIF Inspection Appointments.
- Booking Lists for boarding.
- Air Freight Lists.
- Quotas.
- Discrepancies.
- Alerts for events.
- Support utilities.
- Others.
During March 2015, pilot tests were carried out on the Outbound Process of Goods by Air, involving real agents who satisfactorily tested the validity and usability of the systems designed.
Part of the development of the e-Freight BCN Platform has been funded with the grant from the Ministry of Industry for Groups of Innovative Companies in its 2014 Call.
