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Freighter operators first to offer online booking

[ June 3, 2019   //   ]

Freighter airlines AirBridgeCargo (ABC) and CargoLogicAir (CLA) have signed a global partnership with air cargo booking platform cargo.one to become the first all-cargo airlines to make their capacities available for digital booking with instant confirmation.

ABC and CLA will be able to market their global capacities to cargo.one’s customer base of hundreds of freight forwarding companies digitally. Forwarders of all sizes will in turn be able to search for, compare and book offers from the two carriers.

The offering is planned to go live later this summer after completion of the integration of the carriers’ in-house systems with cargo.one.

Volga-Dnepr Group vice president for sales and marketing, Robert van de Weg commented: “Offering our capacities on cargo.one enables us to meet customers’ growing demand for digital solutions and to give forwarders of all sizes access to our large global freighter network.”

Being better able to reach small and medium-sized forwarders through cargo.one will also help increase short-term capacity sales and thus load factors, to grow even more sustainably,” added CLA chief executive, David Kerr.

Forwarders also welcomed the move. Hauke Langert, airfreight chief executive at Skyline Express International, commented: “Gaining faster and more efficient access to freighter capacities is a real game-changer. cargo.one now allows us to have 24/7 access to CLA and ABC capacities and enables us to serve our customers and partners based on real-time rates.” And Steffen Löbert, managing director at CS4 Logistics added: “We highly welcome the partnership and looking forward to expand our relationship with ABC and CLA because of the much easier access now.”

Moritz Claussen, managing director and founder of cargo.one concluded: “We are very excited to enable this industry-first. ABC and CLA are spearheading innovation for all-cargo airlines to become more digital and thus customer-centric. And, they are now able to access the untapped market of smaller and medium-sized forwarders that were previously not able to book with them. This will help them to further up their sales and load factors across their networks.”

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