Qatar Airways Cargo adds digital booking through WebCargo

This story has been updated with comments from Freightos. Qatar Airways Cargo is introducing real-time pricing, capacity information and e-booking through Freightos’ WebCargo application. [caption id="attachment_94173" align="alignright" width="450"] Photo/Qatar Airways[/caption] The Feb. 7 rollout will begin with France, Germany, Italy, Spain, South Africa and the Netherlands, according to a statement from the airline. It will also feature promotional rates for forwarders, for discounts of what Qatar Airways Cargo estimates amount to $0.06 per kg for the first 20,000 shipments booked through WebCargo across those markets. More promotions are expected as e-booking is rolled out in other markets later in the year. Qatar Airways Cargo has launched several digitalization programs in recent months, said Guillaume Halleux, chief officer for cargo, in the statement. Among the recent initiatives are online rate distribution, ad hoc rate automation, track-and-trace and availability via API. The launch of e-booking from Qatar is the latest in a growing trend of digitalization among cargo carriers and freight forwarders . The pandemic has pushed the industry to accelerate lagging digital initiatives ; Lufthansa Cargo, Delta Cargo, Southwest Cargo and Japan Airlines are among the carriers that have bolstered or launched new digitalization programs since around April 2020, when the pandemic began to seriously impact airfreight. According to a Freightos spokesperson, year-over-year e-bookings through WebCargo increased tenfold in 2020 after starting slowly due to a widespread lack of e-booking capabilities for many carriers. "Now with Qatar — the largest air cargo airline in the world — using eBookings, the total global capacity available for eBookings is 19.5%, and we have more major airlines that will be joining in Q1 of this year,” a spokesperson told Air Cargo World . [caption id="attachment_94185" align="alignright" width="870"] Courtesy of Freightos' WebCargo[/caption]

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