Double anniversary
Jettainer, an outsourced ULD management provider, is sending a visual container around the world to mark the 60th anniversary of the airfreight container. The journey began in Frankfurt on 7 March, and the box is now heading for Singapore, where the Iata World Cargo Symposium is taking place next week.
In Singapore, the Jettainer celebrations will continue with a second anniversary: namely the company's 15th anniversary.
Innovations in the ULD steering software and in container hardware have led to significant increases in efficiency and contribute to more fuel-efficiency and eco-friendliness.
Jettainer’s IT infrastructure, Jett Ware, already incorporates artificial intelligence to support ULD controllers in their work. Technologies for geo-localization of ULDs are successfully in use.
Further developments continue to provide improvements. The ULD black box, for example, is currently being tested as a device that can measure and register damages. (mw)