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Tiaca honours airfreight veteran

[ October 13, 2017   //   ]

The International Air Cargo Association (Tiaca) has inducted Des Vertannes into its Hall of Fame. He started the Global Air Cargo Advisory Group and pushed to modernise the relationship between airlines and forwarders over a career spanning close to five decades. During his tenure as head of cargo for the International Air Transport Association between 2010 and 2014, he also set the industry the challenge of reducing transit times by 48 hours. A year after retiring from IATA, he became a strategic advisor to cloud-based IT cargo management provider, SmartKargo.

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