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Freightos, the leading vendor-neutral digital pricing, booking and procurement platform for the international freight industry, has announced that Air Serbia will be joining its cargo booking platform. Once live, Air Serbia air cargo will be available for e-bookings across the United States and throughout its European network. The platform streamlines the financial aspect of air cargo bookings by ensuring carrier payment from a broader range of freight forwarders, all while processing and reconciling transactions faster than traditional payment methods. This reduces financial risk for airlines and helps freight forwarders without an existing airline account or accreditation to gain access to carriers and grow their customer base.
Sebastien Podgorski, Vice President Airline Solutions, at Freightos, said, “We’re excited to welcome Air Serbia to Freightos. In air cargo, payments are more than a back office function; they’re a strategic lever. By combining booking with guaranteed payments, we’re helping airlines strengthen cash flow, reduce disputes, and open up distribution to a much broader set of forwarders. That’s what will drive a more accessible and efficient market”. Veselin Djordjević, Head of Cargo at Air Serbia, added, “Digital transformation is at the core of our growth strategy, and partnering with Freightos represents a significant step forward in our cargo operations. The guaranteed payment solution addresses a critical business need for us, eliminating financial uncertainty while expanding our reach to freight forwarders across Europe and beyond. This integration will streamline operations, reduce administrative work, and help us focus on delivering excellent service to our cargo customers”.
Bravo Air Serbia 🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸
ReplyDeleteIf they could just convert a single passenger plane into cargo, it would bring them additional profit
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely.
DeleteFreightos doesn't operate in China?
ReplyDeleteI still think not converting the ATR72s was a mistake
ReplyDeleteIt's probably cheaper or at least easier to find a newer cargo variant and lease it than invest into a 30+ yr old ATR conversation
DeleteThe financial risk was not there even before Webcargo. Since 20 years, we have IATA CASS billing in the Airfreight industrie, which ensured that airlines got their money each end of the money from the forwarders.
ReplyDeleteWebcargo (Freightos) on top of it has two major disadvantages: First of all it is not capable in selling higher rates for voluminous, bulky or non stackable cargo and some airlines who use Webcargo tend to reduce their reachability by cutting customer service or sales staff. No good reachibility is poison for business development, especially since there is still a difference between cargo and passengers. If something goes wrong, the passenger will immediately seek for help and action. Cargo has no voice and if staff, doesnt immediately realizes that a shipment was left behind, freight may stay for hours or even days, losing unnecessary time. Time is money, in airfreight this counts even more, cause costs are significantly higher than ocean or road transport, but ocean freight becomes more and more competitive, especially to places such as the US Eastcoast, where u from Middle Europe to New York dont need more than 10 days anymore.
If Webcargo is used as a further booking channel, especially for small and non special cargo, it makes sense. But definitely not to reduce more and more workforce or service quality in general.
So I can finally get my Zastava 700 booked as cargo to Toronto?!
ReplyDeleteOr hand luggage 🤣
DeleteThis will do a better job at filling cargo,especialy with the middle east situation
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