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Centrolene NewsEdge Know more. Page: 6 Freight digitalization progresses as Lufthansa Cargo joins live spot-rates sales channel Source: Lloyd’s Loading List Date: 16 th July, 2018 Partnership with cargo.one enables air freight forwarders to book available air freight capacity completely digitally, with immediate confirmation Air freight digitalization is set to enter a new stage after one of the sector’s largest players, Lufthansa Cargo, agreed to join the live spot-rates sales channel cargo.one – an airline-independent digital platform for marketing and booking of air freight capacity. The partnership with cargo.one enables air freight forwarders to book available air freight capacity completely digitally, with immediate confirmations. Although cargo.one said it already has more than 10 airlines on its booking platform, Lufthansa Cargo is thought to be its largest airline partner to date. The German carrier said: “Lufthansa Cargo is thus opening up a new digital sales channel for the spot segment. The globally available capacities of Lufthansa Cargo will be integrated into the cargo.one offering for this purpose. “The partnership between cargo.one and Lufthansa Cargo enables air freight forwarders to book available air freight capacities for td.Flash and td.Pro
Centrolene NewsEdge Know more. Page: 7 completely digitally and in real time across the entire available route grid of Lufthansa Cargo.” The td.Flash and td.Pro products are the carrier’s timedefinite products for express and general freight, respectively. Lufthansa Cargo said the sales platform offered customers a completely “upto-date online offering”, noting: “All important information about the connections as well as the real capacity-dependent and dynamic live spot rates are clearly displayed. For each connection, numerous alternatives are displayed at a glance so that the optimal offer can be found quickly.” Although the air freight sector began exploring online sales portals more than a decade ago, including via neutral channels such as GF-X and CPS, the use of neutral online booking channels by freight forwarders and airlines has failed to take off in a meaningful way. However, new pressures driven by e- commerce look set to accelerate their adoption within air freight. Peter Gerber, chairman of the board of Lufthansa Cargo, commented: “Digitization allows information to be distributed around the globe in fractions of a second. This has given rise to new expectations with which both carriers and freight forwarders are confronted. “We are therefore now offering our customers the opportunity to exchange prices and capacities even faster and to book services even easier. Booking platforms such as cargo.one will in future support forwarders in meeting their customers’ needs even better. This is the next logical step in the digitization of our industry.” Oliver Neumann, founder of cargo.one, commented: “We are pleased to partner with Lufthansa Cargo as the leading air cargo airline in our mission to make air cargo bookable digitally and in real time. Many solutions on the market promise digital bookability; the reality is that in most cases the rates offered do not give access to capacity.
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