DB Schenker has expanded the number of airlines it has digital connectivity to for online bookings through a new partnership with cargo.one.
The forwarder has in recent months been creating API connections with a series of its airline partners as it looks to create efficiency in the booking process.
The company announced it had formed a partnership with online booking portal cargo.one that would give it digital access to the capacity of fifty airlines, according to London's Air Cargo News.
The connectivity between db Schenker and cargo.one is based on API calls from DB Schenker's transport management system for availability and pricing of capacities, as well as booking and booking confirmations.
Those calls are triggered and fed back to the transport management system in DB Schenker.
The forwarder said that when it digitally responds to a quote request from a customer it will inquire with a larger number of airlines - four times as many, on average.
'Around 75 per cent of DB Schenker's global airfreight volume is carried on our top twenty carriers. We had already set up direct API interfaces with a significant proportion. Now we are connected to almost all of them,' said DB Schenker spokesperson Mario Arnold.
The carrier had previously created API connections with nine airlines: Cargolux (November 2022), Qatar Airways Cargo (May 2023), Lufthansa Cargo (June 2023), Air France KLM Martinair Cargo (August 2023), American Airlines Cargo (November 2023), Cathay Cargo (December 2023), Emirates SkyCargo (April 2024), Avianca Cargo (May 2024).
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The forwarder has in recent months been creating API connections with a series of its airline partners as it looks to create efficiency in the booking process.
The company announced it had formed a partnership with online booking portal cargo.one that would give it digital access to the capacity of fifty airlines, according to London's Air Cargo News.
The connectivity between db Schenker and cargo.one is based on API calls from DB Schenker's transport management system for availability and pricing of capacities, as well as booking and booking confirmations.
Those calls are triggered and fed back to the transport management system in DB Schenker.
The forwarder said that when it digitally responds to a quote request from a customer it will inquire with a larger number of airlines - four times as many, on average.
'Around 75 per cent of DB Schenker's global airfreight volume is carried on our top twenty carriers. We had already set up direct API interfaces with a significant proportion. Now we are connected to almost all of them,' said DB Schenker spokesperson Mario Arnold.
The carrier had previously created API connections with nine airlines: Cargolux (November 2022), Qatar Airways Cargo (May 2023), Lufthansa Cargo (June 2023), Air France KLM Martinair Cargo (August 2023), American Airlines Cargo (November 2023), Cathay Cargo (December 2023), Emirates SkyCargo (April 2024), Avianca Cargo (May 2024).
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