News / Digitisation finally taking off as air cargo carriers develop online distribution

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After years of criticism that airlines – their cargo sides, anyway – were failing to develop new distribution channels, digitisation and online sales are this week’s buzzwords. 

First up was Air France-KLM Cargo, which signed up to Freightos’s air freight WebCargo platform, which claims to be the world’s largest.

It allows AF-KLM customers to view live rates, assess capacity availability and secure bookings on specific flights in real-time, following a pilot conducted with the carrier and Panalpina. 

But AF-KLM said that while WebCargo was a first, it was ...