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When it comes to messaging, we do it all—any protocol, any format, any location.
Tracking cargo is critical to supply chain management and often requires costly national and international phone calls, overnight document deliveries, and multiple hardware platforms and software programs to communicate with the airlines.
Now with ARINC’s complete suite of cargo messaging conversion services, your critical link becomes automated, efficient, and secure. You may use your current cargo tracking application or ARINC’s Forward LinkSM application, and ARINC provides the transport mechanism.
Keep Your Current System
When you select ARINC’s cargo messaging conversion services, you can use your current system and still trade electronically—regardless of your preferred message format. Through electronic data interchange (EDI) translation capabilities, you and your business partners easily exchange documents even when you use different software applications. ARINC takes advantage of Type B messaging for access to airlines and other trading
partners and handles:
- Compliance checking and version conversion for IATA Cargo IMP messaging
- Full translation for user-defined files
- Full translation for ANSI X12 to Cargo IMP
- U.S. Customs AMS/AES Messaging
Use the Latest in Cargo Tracking—Forward LinkSM
If you need the latest in cargo tracking software, Forward Link by ARINC is an easy-to-use desktop application for shippers, forwarders, and other organizations in the air cargo industry.
Forward Link lets you communicate with airlines worldwide by using the Internet for your connection to ARINC’s global network.
Forward Link is an easily installed, PC-based solution that offers you maximum performance and connectivity to manage and track cargo shipments plus create and print air waybills. And, when linked to ARINC’s EDI service, you can access flight information, receive status information, and make reservations.
Retain Security in Message Switching
Security—so important to business-critical applications—is a hallmark of ARINC’s network. Both physical security and systems elements such as firewalls contribute to the integrity of the ARINC network and your critical link to cargo updates. When you access cargo information through various communications protocols for open network connectivity, ARINC provides the secure messaging backbone you and the air transport industry need to bridge different systems.
Benefits of Connecting to ARINC
- Your company attains the highest reliability levels in the industry.
- Your costs are clearly defined with ARINC’s per-message beneficiary-pay structure.
- Your major airline trading partners are already on ARINC’s network, making them immediately available via your Cargo connection.
- Your other partners can connect to ARINC using their existing communications protocols or the WWW.
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