Declaration of Effectiveness of Multilateral e-AWB Agreement

Following the recent Airfreight Institute Meeting, FIATA's Press Release published on 27 March 2013 announced globally that the Multilateral Electronic Air Waybill (e-AWB) standard has been approved – removing the need for bilateral e-AWB agreements between airlines and freight forwarders. Airlines will have a single agreement with IATA that enables them to accept e-AWBs from all participating freight forwarders, while freight forwarders will have a single agreement that will allow them to tender e-AWB shipments to multiple airlines at numerous airports worldwide.

Collaborating closely, IATA and FIATA, together with some of their members, developed and tested the multilateral e-AWB standard in 2012. After the endorsement by the IATA/FIATA Consultative Council in February 2013, and the approval by the IATA Cargo Services Conference of the multilateral e-AWB as the new IATA Resolution 672 in March, the standard has now been declared effective, with the filing period for all governments ending on 15 April 2013. The necessary formalities with the US authorities to declare it effective have been favourably concluded. IATA’s memo on the subject can be found at the following link: http://www.fiata.com/uploads/media

Source: Fiata

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