News / More air and sea carriers take the digital plunge to offer online freight booking

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The transport industry – particularly air and sea – has taken one step further towards online pricing, and a subsequently improved relationship with forwarders, according to carriers.

Cargosphere has launched eSUDS Connector, a universal rate structure and API (application programming interface) for ocean carriers to offer digital rate distribution to customers.

The connector enables shipping lines to transfer confidential customer contracts, amendments and global surcharge tariffs to the CargoSphere network using a common data format. This is made available to forwarders and ...