The Air Cargo Forum India (ACFI) launched its unique and landmark ‘Air Cargo Awards 2023-24,’ on 15th November 2023 aimed to recognise and acknowledge the most innovative initiatives, ideas, and solutions addressing the challenges faced by the air cargo supply chain and logistics industry.
The core objective behind these awards is to support and promote innovative concepts, research endeavours, and studies within the air cargo logistics domain, with the overarching aim of enhancing and fostering its progress.
Five categories have been devised based on the aspects of innovation and utopian perfection. Hence, a neologism – ‘INNOVATOPIA’ has been coined and prefixed before every category’s title to establish their unique identity.
CATEGORY – 1: Innovatopia Award for Enhanced Customer Experience
Use an innovative idea or concept to enhance Customer Experience via increased quality, visibility, simplified processes & modernised systems in the air cargo industry.
CATEGORY – 2: Innovatopia Award in Competitiveness
Use an innovative idea or concept to improve competitiveness via optimisation of costs, enhance efficiency and improve capacity utilisation in the air cargo industry through out of the box solutions.
CATEGORY – 3: Innovatopia Award in Air Cargo Safety & Security
Use an innovative idea or concept to improve Safety and Security in Air Cargo via latest technological advancement in the air cargo industry.
CATEGORY – 4: Innovatopia Award in Digitisation
Use an innovative idea or concept by which we can speed up digitisation in the Air Cargo industry.
CATEGORY – 5: Innovatopia Award Sustainability & Go Green efforts
Use an innovative idea or concept to address Sustainability challenges and contribute to any “Go Green” project in the Air Cargo industry.
Nominations for various categories of awards will be accepted exclusively through online submissions. The nomination window has been opened from 15th November, 2023 to 15th January 2024.
The final winners will be decided by an esteemed ‘Panel of Jury’ members from across the globe, comprising: Ashwin Bhat, Global Chief Executive Officer, Lufthansa Cargo; Ajay Singh, Chairman and Managing Director, SpiceJet; Glyn Hughes, Director General, TIACA; Keshav Tanna, Managing Director, Links Logistics; Pradeep Panicker, Chief Executive Officer, Hyderabad Airport; Vandana Aggarwal, Former Senior Economic Advisor, Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA); Keku Bomi Gazdar, Governing Board Member – ACFI and MD & CEO – AviaPro Logistics Services.
ACFI seeks support from industry colleagues to promote the ACFI Innovation Awards 2023-24 within their trade circles to encourage involvement of different industry stakeholders for its wider reach.
