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The Information Committee of Japan International Freight Forwarders Association Inc. (JIFFA) held a special intensive seminar on cloud computing on May 28, 2013 at the association’s head office in Tokyo.
The committee will organize a similar event on June 11 on the Advance Filing Rules on Maritime Container Cargo Information, known as the Japanese version of the ''24-Hour Rule,'' to be implemented in Japan in March 2014.
From March next year, ship operators and other relevant parties will be required to submit information on shipments bound for Japan at least 24 hours before they are loaded onto ships at foreign ports.
The special intensive seminar was held to help JIFFA members learn about Cloud Computing, as they will use cloud services when lodging cargo information when the 24-hour rule is applied in Japan.
Mr. Masahiro Nagakura, an IT coordinator of Hitachi Information Academy Co., Ltd. and an IT lecturer for JIFFA, was a lecturer at the seminar.
Mr. Nagakura spoke of the history of developments in the field of IT, what the cloud services are, the definition of cloud computing and so on.
At a time when IT can change business environments drastically, it is being used in a wide variety of ways on a global basis, he said.
People are paying attention to cloud computing, because under the cloud initiatives, they can use IT whenever and as much as they want to, and they only need to pay for how much they use it, the lecturer added.
Mr. Nagakura also focused on how IT and cloud computing can be used in business in the future.
JIFFA member companies are so highly interested in the cloud system that they filled the seats at the seminar, some of which came all the way from Hokkaido and Kansai.
