We Make Your Cargo Fly

Alha Airport is the most important private Airport Handler in Italy headquartered in Milano Malpensa intercontinental airport's cargo city.

With experience and know how it manages cargos of the most important national and international airline companies taking special care of the integrity and security of goods.

Investments

  • MACS - new “house made” IT system for cargo handling
  • Additional stacking system for better and quicker upload/download of ULDs
  • New rollerbeds
  • New Frontier inspection site for goods of vegetable origin: additional visit area for phytopathologist inspections and 5 additional refrigerated rooms
  • Additional covered areas for ULDs storage

MaCS: Mail and Cargo System

In 2008 Alha Airport has implemented MACS, Mail and Cargo System, a new specific IT System for mail and cargo handling which will be able to communicate with almost all the systems of any company operating in the field of cargo (Carriers, agents, forwarders, etc.).

Some of the benefits MaCS will bring to document handling:

  • High efficiency in cargo document handling and flight preparation
  • Reduction of acceptance time
  • Time saving in the whole document handling process
  • Availability of a wide range of information for the flight’s operators (e.g. technical chart of every single A/C for all the Carriers are available and can be consulted in MaCS)
  • High compatibility with Carriers’ IT Systems -
  • Reduction of Human Error
  • Paper saving in the whole document handling process

MaCS operates via web browser (therefore eliminating installation issues) as it has been created for working through application server (Oracle Application Server).

MaCS has been developed with the specific aim of making connections easier.

A wide employment of wireless technology allows the operators to move with little or no hassle.

Thanks to wireless networking, bar-coding and electronic archiving, MaCS’ technology leads to a significant reduction in the use of paper for cargo document handling: thanks to the introduction of MaCS, Alha Airport Spa is expected to save more than 50% of paper every year.

Alha Airport Partnerships in Technological research

Since November, 2007 Alha Airport Spa is taking part to IPS - Internal Post Corporation project: Future of mail by Air EDI Interface with Carriers. Since then, our IT department is testing CARDIT/RESDIT and PRECON/RESCON messages and represents a benchmark in Italy for the development of mail handling IT.

Starting as from May 2008, Alha Airport has been supporting IATA STB / e-freight pilot.
E-freight is an initiative launched by the Board of IATA which aims to leverage technology, automate the business and streamline processes. This results in a reduction of complexity and cost, to make travel more convenient.