IATA Announces Successful Electronic Consignment Security Declaration Trials
The International Air Transport Association said it successfully tested the electronic consignment security declaration (e-CSD) in the U.K. and Netherlands. The e-CSD meets regulatory demands for evidence that appropriate security measures have been applied to air cargo and mail by…
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detailing how, when and by whom a consignment of cargo or mail has been secured, IATA said. By standardizing the process and documentation of such evidence, e-CSD will replace redundant security declarations in various formats and make it easier to implement security emergency amendments, it said. Plans are now under way to run live operational shipment trials over coming months, it said. These will give industry and regulators more findings and allow for fine-tuning based on live data. Once the live trial period ends, industry will be able to replace its range of security declarations with a globally harmonized electronic one, IATA said.