Asian Cities Lead Cargo Portal Services Bookings; Tokyo Is Top Location but Shanghai is Catching Up, Notes Unisys.BLUE BELL, Pa. -- Unisys today announced that air cargo air cargo: see aviation. electronic business continues to grow very rapidly around the world, with growth primarily in Asia. Since 2004, Tokyo has been the top location for bookings on Unisys-operated Cargo Portal Services (CPS (1) (Characters Per Second) The measurement of the speed of a serial printer or the speed of a data transfer between hardware devices or over a communications channel. CPS is equivalent to bytes per second. ), a leading electronic booking and shipment management service for the air cargo industry. In mid-2005, Tokyo broke the threshold of 1,000 confirmed new bookings made through the service in one week and throughout 2006 it has averaged over that level on a weekly basis. While Tokyo remains the top station for CPS bookings, Shanghai has been catching up and is close to breaking through the level of 1,000 confirmed new bookings per week. These two top Asian cities demonstrate the global appeal of CPS, despite the fact that the service doesn't currently include the flag carrier of those countries. It also illustrates the pattern of adoption of CPS eBusiness, which is greatest in Asia, followed by North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . "All across Asia, we have been impressed with how our customers have quickly and thoroughly embraced e-booking," said Jim Friedel, president, Northwest Airlines Cargo on behalf of all the CPS carriers. "We thank our Tokyo-based customers for leading the charge, and we look forward to seeing other stations passing the 1,000-weekly-bookings milestone level." Christopher Shawdon, Unisys vice president Logistics Solutions, added that "CPS continues to grow very rapidly with the number of confirmed bookings up more than 35% in the last four months." About Cargo Portal Services CPS is an electronic booking and Cargo 2000-accredited shipment management service for the air cargo industry. It was designed in cooperation with major carriers and forwarders, and is operated by Unisys. CPS serves the global cargo networks of Air Canada, Austrian Airlines Austrian Airlines AG is the flag carrier airline of Austria, headquartered in Vienna. It operates scheduled sevices to over 130 destinations. Its main base is Vienna International Airport, with a hub at Innsbruck Airport.[1] In 2006 Austrian had 10 million passengers. , KLM KLM Kaiserliche Marine (Enigma: Rising Tide game) KLM Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij (Royal Dutch Airlines) KLM Klub Langer Menschen (German: Tall Person Club) , Northwest Airlines and United Airlines. American Airlines American Airlines Major U.S. airline. American was created through a merger of several smaller U.S. airlines and incorporated in 1934. It continued to buy the routes of other airlines, becoming an international carrier in the 1970s; its routes include South America, the and Continental airlines are in the process of going live on the service. Access to CPS is free for forwarders, both through the public Internet (www.CargoPortalServices.com) and through secure system-to-system connections. It currently serves more than 4,700 branch offices of 2,400 forwarding companies in 85 countries. About Unisys Unisys is a worldwide technology services and solutions company. Our consultants apply Unisys expertise in consulting, systems integration, outsourcing (1) Contracting with outside consultants, software houses or service bureaus to perform systems analysis, programming and datacenter operations. Contrast with insourcing. See netsourcing, ASP, SSP and facilities management. , infrastructure, and server technology to help our clients achieve secure business operations Business operations are those activities involved in the running of a business for the purpose of producing value for the stakeholders. Compare business processes. The outcome of business operations is the harvesting of value from assets . We build more secure organizations by creating visibility into clients' business operations. Leveraging Unisys 3D Visible Enterprise, we make visible the impact of their decisions - ahead of investments, opportunities and risks. For more information, visit www.unisys.com. RELEASE NO.: 0428/8654 http://www.unisys.com/about__unisys/news_a_events/04288654.htm Unisys is a registered trademark of Unisys Corporation (company) Unisys Corporation - The company formed in 1984-5 when Burroughs Corporation merged with Sperry Corporation. This was when the phrase "dinosaurs mating" was coined. . All other brands and products referenced herein are acknowledged to be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. |
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