Despite having had some four years to prepare, no fewer than 12 European Union (EU) countries were not ready when the EU’s new air cargo security augmentation initiative, the Pre-Loading Advance Cargo Information (PLACI) system, went live on March 1. Further, these countries – Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, France, Greece, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania and Sweden – have not given definitive timelines for when they would be ready to implement PLACI. The representative body of the global airline industry, the International Air Transport Association (IATA), has called for urgent action to address the supply chain problems this incomplete implementation of PLACI was threatening. The association pointed out that the 12 non-compliant States contained some of the EU’s main cargo hub airports.
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