AIRLINES & CRUISE LINERS — VERIFICATION OF TRAVEL DOCUMENTS & CREATION OF ELECTRONIC PASSENGER MANIFESTS

Ensuring the right traveler is on-board a passenger aircraft, cruise ship or cross-border train has always been a concern for the travel industry. Passenger list management requirements and immigration regulations enforcement necessitates the screening, authentication and verification of passenger identity documents such as passports, IDs and visas.

For such a task which has near-zero tolerance for error, much of today’s passenger security management procedures are still dependent on manual checking and visual inspection. Existing procedures are inefficient, manpower-intensive, susceptible to human errors and require trained personnel to spot irregularities in IDs and passports. Also, the manual process may not collect all the information contained in the ID/passport.

With the current heightened security awareness worldwide, the pressure is now ever greater on airline, maritime and other long-haul transportation industries to ensure that they have the right passengers onboard their carriers. Passenger safety and security is of paramount concern.

Now this process can be automated and enhanced with i-Travel, one of the world’s foremost document capture, verification and data collection applications from an AssureTec partner - Oakwell Engineering Limited (Singapore).