The Japanese airline will also benefit from cargo.one’s extensive customer base in Europe and thus, expand its presence in key cargo markets.
“Partnering with leading online booking platform cargo.one will help to accelerate our ambition to digitally transform our business within the coming years and to focus even more on our customer needs,” said Toshiaki Toyama, Senior Vice President of ANA. “With cargo.one we enable freight forwarders to book our capacity offers in a fast and frictionless manner, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.”
In the meantime, the partnership also sees cargo.one continue its rapid growth and expand its global presence. In 2019, the platform distributed more than 2.2m instantly bookable real-time offers to customers, averaging more than 6,000 a day.
With each new airline joining the platform, a strong increase in bookings per user is recorded. ANA’s strong network in Asia will boost overall capacities available to cargo.one customers on important trade lanes and add to the digital platform’s monthly average growth rate of 20%.
“As cargo.one continues to expand rapidly we are looking forward to adding even more capacity on major trade lanes to Asia,” said Moritz Claussen, Managing Director of cargo.one. “We are very happy to welcome major Asian carrier ANA to the platform and to support the airline to extend its reach into the European market while offering a first-class booking experience to customers.”
ANA and cargo.one successfully initiated integration of their core systems in mid-January, with ANA Cargo capacity expected to be available in the second quarter of 2020.