Lufthansa Cargo has signed a cooperation contract with digital platform provider cargo.one in order to open up a new digital sales channel for the spot market.

According to the German carrier, the platform will enable forwarders to digitally book air freight capacity for the td.Flash and td.Pro products in real time at live spot rates with immediate confirmation.

“Digitization allows information to be distributed around the globe in fractions of a second,” said Peter Gerber, chairman of the board and CEO of Lufthansa Cargo. “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.”

All the important information about connections as well as the real capacity-dependent and dynamic live spot rates is clearly displayed. For each connection, various alternatives are displayed at a glance so that the optimal offer can be found quickly.

“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,” said Oliver T. Neumann, founder of cargo.one. “Many solutions on the market promise digital bookability. The reality is that in most cases the rates offered do not give access to capacity. In particular at times of high demand, our solution offers air freight forwarders a quick and easy access to capacities with immediate confirmation at live spot rates.”

cargo.one was founded in August 2017 in Berlin.