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WebCargo by Freightos Enables First Digital Interlining Air Cargo Shipment Booked between ITA Airways and Qatar Airways Cargo
In Digital Air Cargo (DAC) milestone, WebCargo reduces time to book interline shipments from days to seconds JERUSALEM, July 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
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[{"type":"text","content":"In Digital Air Cargo (DAC) milestone, WebCargo reduces time to book interline shipments from days to seconds\nJERUSALEM, July 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Freightos Limited (NASDAQ: CRGO), a leading vendor-neutral booking and payment platform for the international freight industry, announced that WebCargo by Freightos now enables digital interlining. The first booking, a test shipment by Qatar Airways Cargo on an ITA Airways flight, is a significant first step towards Freightos' vision for streamlined interlining.\nIn a post-COVID world, interline activities have become increasingly relevant. As airline networks continue to respond to a much-changed operating environment, airlines are putting greater emphasis on their partnership activity.\nIn order to further improve capacity utilization and efficiency, airlines are looking to streamline interlining with WebCargo by Freightos, the leading cargo booking platform that supports hundreds of thousands of air cargo eBookings a quarter. In this significant first step, a test shipment was booked by Qatar Airways Cargo on an ITA Airways flight.\nIn the passenger travel industry, close to 10 percent of all itineraries contain code-sharing. However, the process for cargo interlining is manual and frequently takes 24-48 hours to complete. Because of this friction, interlining is underused in cargo. With digital interlining, airlines can improve capacity utilization, broaden global coverage, and create new business opportunities.\nAccording to a spokesperson at ITA Airways, \"Digital interlining means efficiency, which is sorely needed to accommodate air cargo demand. It means offering increased network opportunities for customers and easing interline agreements' full implementation, as well as enhanced, faster capacity access. ITA Airways is fully committed to introducing new digital solutions for cargo, and to improving and facilitating shipment management and customers' booking experience. We were proud to be WebCargo eBooking adopters for forwarders, and are now excited to be pioneers of digital interlining.\"\n\"Waiting two days to price and book cargo that can circle the globe in under a day simply does not work\" said Manel Galindo, CEO of WebCargo by Freightos. \"This new functionality brought together two carriers with no recent record of interlining together, which demonstrates the po...