ONE Record Foundation

90-minute e-learning course

Vaccines on the ramp. The temperature is rising. Who knows? With messages, maybe no one, until it is too late. With ONE Record, everyone who needs to know is told, as it happens. That is why, since 1 January 2026, ONE Record is the industry’s preferred standard for sharing air cargo data. Whether you ship it, sell it, move it, handle it or build the systems behind it: in 90 minutes, understand the shift and see it at work on a real shipment. Step one of the complete IATA ONE Record training program. Your journey starts here.

Course Code: CGC016ELEN01

Group discounts
Considerable discounts are available for multiple purchases (30+ users) of this course.
To simplify company-wide implementation, you can also host this e-learning course on your company’s Learning Management. Please contact us for more information.

Registration information

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Upon completing this course, you will have the skills to:

• Explain why air cargo is moving beyond message-based data exchange, and what “preferred standard” means since 1 January 2026
• Describe the three pillars of ONE Record: the data model, the API and the security framework
• Explain the piece-centric model and the role of Logistics Objects and URIs, and identify which party holds which data in a shipment
• Describe how events are coordinated between parties, how access to data is controlled, and the purpose of the audit trail
• Apply these concepts to a shipment from booking to clearance, and identify the training pathway that fits your role

The key topics that are covered during this course include:Why air cargo is moving beyond messages, and the limits of EDI

• Why air cargo is moving beyond messages, and the limits of EDI
• From 1960 to 2026: how air cargo data standards evolved
• The three pillars of ONE Record: data model, API and security framework
• The piece-centric model, Logistics Objects and URIs
• Finding, reading and updating shared data
• Coordinating events between parties as the shipment moves
• Controlling who can see and change what
• The audit trail: knowing what changed, when and by whom
• Applying ONE Record to a shipment from booking to clearance

This course is recommended for:

• Everyone working in air cargo: airlines, freight forwarders, ground handling agents, shippers, customs brokers, and the IT providers who build their systems
• Operations, sales, IT and management professionals who need to understand ONE Record
• Anyone planning to follow the specialist ONE Record pathways: this course is the first step

Course format

• This self-study e-learning course requires approximately 90 minutes of study, to be completed within 6 months from the purchase date (enrollment validity).
• After the enrollment validity expires, the users will not have access to the course content and will not be able to take the assessment.
• The recommended level for this course is Entry-level
• Student performance will be based on an assessment. Please refer to the Assessment Information below for more details.

Upon successful completion of the assessment, you will be granted an Award that you can print for your records.

Assessment information

Please read the General Information on Self-study exams.

• Delivery method: Unsupervised online-based exam. Assessment can be taken at any time at your convenience.
• Format: 20 multiple-choice questions
• Time allowance: 2 hours
• Passing grade: 70% correct answers
• Number of assessment attempts: 2

Important note: The assessment should be accessed after you have completed the course module. Once you have started the assessment you can no longer access the course module.