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Air Cargo
Published in Milica Kalić, Slavica Dožić, Danica Babić, Introduction to the Air Transport System, 2022
Milica Kalić, Slavica Dožić, Danica Babić
Different stakeholders are involved in the air cargo transport process. Namely, the main stakeholders are usually the consignor, the consignee, the freight forwarders, and the airline. According to ICAO and WCO (2016), a consignor is an entity or an individual who initiates the movement or transport of the goods. Precisely, the consignor is the sender. Another term can also be found, and it is the “shipper” which is used to describe the entity or an individual who initiates the trade in goods. Although consignor and shipper can be the same entity or an individual, these are separate roles in air cargo supply chains. The recipient of goods at the end of transport is known as the consignee, and this party is designated on the invoice or the packing list (ICAO and WCO 2016). The main task of freight forwarders is to arrange for air shipments (which might include consolidation of cargo) to be managed in such a way that they are ready for transport by an airline that is responsible for the transport of goods. In addition to stakeholders mentioned above, ground handlers and airports could be responsible for and in contact with shipments in some phases of transport.
Economic and technical regulation
Published in Peter S. Morrell, Thomas Klein, Moving Boxes by Air, 2018
Peter S. Morrell, Thomas Klein
During 2012, the EC developed further regulations in view of the independent validation required for air carriers, regulated agents and known consignors in third countries as of July 1, 2014. These were defined as: Regulated agent: An agent, freight forwarder or any other entity that handles cargo and ensures security controls in respect of cargo and mail.Known consignor: A consignor who originates cargo or mail for its own account and whose procedures meet common security rules and standards sufficient to allow carriage of cargo or mail on any aircraft.Account consignor: A consignor who originates cargo or mail for its own account and whose procedures meet common security rules and standards sufficient to allow carriage of that cargo or mail on all-cargo or all-mail aircraft only.
BI and Operations Management
Published in Bert Brijs, Business Analysis for Business Intelligence, 2016
The first and principal question you will have to answer during the intake is the unit of measure. In an ideal world, the physical and the administrative entities are in sync but I am afraid this is the exception. Take the concept of the consignment of an administrative unit for a shipment versus a unit of transport such as a container or a vessel. The generally accepted definition of consignment is, “A separate identifiable number of goods (available to be) transported from one consignor to one consignee via one or more than one mode of transport and specified in one single transport document.”*
Competitive consignment matching: applications in supply chain
Published in International Journal of Production Research, 2020
Hui Yang, Ding Zhang, Bintong Chen, Baosheng Gu
Consignment is also a popular phenominon in the sharing economy, which was booming in recent years. Technological advances in online and mobile communications have enabled consumers to easily share products or provide services through many online peer-to-peer platforms, e.g. ridesharing platforms, Uber and Didi (Jiang and Tian 2016; Tian and Jiang 2018). In some countries, these platforms (consignees) use the same consignment fee structure as Amazon: a commission fee combined with a monthly or yearly subscription fee. For example, besides a percentage commission per ride, Uber drivers (consignors) are required to pay an annual fee of A$237 in Australia, and Didi drivers (consignors) need pay a slotting fee of ¥3,600 per year in China (Xu 2017; Yan 2018). This consignment fee structure benefits both consignees and consignors. A consignor may be willing to mitigate the consignee’s risk in return by signing in a consignment agreement with a slotting fee and a revenue sharing of the sale. While the slotting fee may serve as a compensation for low volume of sale, the revenue sharing can motivate the consignee’s efforts in promoting and marketing the product or service.