AirBridgeCargo Airlines and DB Schenker collaborated to win the latest stage of the Cargo iQ Q-Rally challenge after improving the data quality of shipment reports from Russia to Schengen Agreement countries.

The Q-Rally is an initiative to encourage Cargo iQ members to work together with their business partners to identify specific issues to be worked on and monitor the progress before presenting at Cargo iQ working groups.

AirBridgeCargo Airlines and DB Schenker were declared winners at the end of last month in the third stage of the challenge at the Group's working group in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

The two Cargo iQ members looked at how quality improvements could be made on their Cargo Data Management Platform (CDMP) monitored shipments from Russia to Schengen countries, breaking down analysis from report level to shipment level, and identifying wher more work is required in the future.

They teamed-up to investigate root causes for Air Waybills (AWBs) not appearing in either reports for Russia and Schengen before providing solutions to overcome them.

"The fix of the root causes improved the electronic data interchange (EDI) connection to AirBridgeCargo which is beneficial for our business. These fixes affect all other connected carriers," said Alexandros Cabadakis, System Integration Specialist, Global IT Management Air & Ocean, DB Schenker.

"The improvements done between the teams affect all other partners connected and help any member of the community facing similar issues. Hence the Q-Rally has positive impact on the entire industry.