SILK WAY WEST JOINS FORCES WITH CARGO.ONE TO SUPERCHARGE DIGITAL SALES ADOPTION

Silk Way West Airlines partners with customer-experience leader cargo.one to deliver the most rapid and user-friendly booking option for forwarders cargo.one will equip the airline with best practices to boost digital booking adoption cargo.one’s unrivaled innovations, such as cargo.one 360leap, provide the airline with the ability to delight forwarders and win more business

Silk Way West Airlines and cargo.one today announced a global partnership to bring the airline’s freighter capacity to the air cargo booking marketplace. By joining customer experience advocate cargo.one, favored by forwarders in all important markets globally, Silk Way West Airlines will expand its digital footprint and align with the highest standards for digital air cargo booking. The airline also gains the market experience and actionable support of cargo.one teams to accelerate digital sales adoption for its capacities.

Headquartered in Baku, at the heart of the Silk Road, Silk Way West Airlines is the largest cargo airline in the Caspian Sea region. The airline carries over 420,000 tonnes of freighter capacity annually, utilizing a fleet of 12 Boeing 747F aircraft with front-loading capabilities. Silk Way West Airlines is progressing an impressive strategy of expansion, in which maximizing its digital distribution to every relevant market plays a vital role. The strategic location of Baku as a hub helps Silk Way West Airlines to span over 40 key destinations across Europe, the CIS, the Middle East, Central and Eastern Asia, and the Americas. Silk Way West Airlines is unique in building an attractive digital offering for larger shipments, where the market is currently under-served. Freight forwarders have long been attracted to the airline’s connectivity, which cargo.one will now deliver to agents with digital speeds and greater convenience than ever before.

Our partnership with cargo.one is an important milestone in our ambitious digitalization journey. By bringing our capacity to cargo.one’s expansive customer base, we will both broaden our reach and enable many more forwarders to benefit from our services. cargo.one and Silk Way teams are collaborating very closely, and we are relying on their proven expertise to enhance our buying journeys and drive up our share of digital air cargo sales.

Wolfgang Meier, President, Silk Way West Airlines

For the many thousands of agents who are thriving with digital bookings on cargo.one, the addition of Silk Way West Airlines' capacity is fantastic news. Due to its keen awareness of the changing market, Silk Way West Airlines is now putting cargo.one, as the best-in-class digital enabler, at the center of its digital sales growth trajectory.

Moritz Claussen, Founder

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Co-CEO, cargo.one

cargo.one’s more than 40 airline partners profit from its targeted innovations that enable forwarders in dozens of countries to book more easily and often. Silk Way West partners with cargo.one shortly after the launch of its revolutionary cargo.one pro and cargo.one protect solutions for instant and seamless agent-to-agent bookings.

A transformed digital booking experience for all import and export shipments now makes cargo.one the air cargo one-stop-shop for many agents worldwide.

project44, the leader in supply chain visibility, and Nexxiot, the leader in Asset Intelligence, today announced a partnership that unlocks new areas of value for joint customers to deliver realtime network insights and IoT-centric conditional and location monitoring.

As logistics innovators, project44 and Nexxiot are substantially expanding their combined capabilities to transform the client experience for shippers and other logistics stakeholders around the globe. This partnership allows customers to integrate conditional and location data with the largest supply chain network in the world. Prior to this partnership, shippers, cargo owners and supply chain participants lacked critical asset intelligence and insight, exposing them to unacceptable risks, lack of visibility and insufficient process control.

This partnership gives joint customers enhanced ETAs using carrier milestones, signals, and historical performance with precise GPS tracking. Additionally, project44 and Nexxiot customers now have capabilities to drive advanced risk management strategies on order and inventory health. Finally, joint customers also unlock new use cases to better manage asset efficiency.

At project44, we strive to provide the most comprehensive supply chain visibility for all of our customers, and combining forces with Nexxiot is a huge step towards that goal. This partnership enhances the insights of our Movement platform with essential real-time asset level tracking, benefitting everyone with the new standard in actionable insights.

Jett McCandless, Founder & CEO, project44

This partnership between project44 and Nexxiot adds vital real-time asset-level monitoring to enhance project44’s Movement platform by improving data-driven assurances on safety, security and compliance.

We are focused on supporting our customers with very large operational and service ROI opportunities. The decision by Hapag-Lloyd to go full-fleet with smart containers in record-time has forever changed the industry. We are inspired by the leadership position of project44 and together keep pushing forward to create the most accurate and insightful data to the benefit of our joint customers.

Stefan Kalmund, CEO, Nexxiot’s

Together, project44 and Nexxiot unlock new and innovative features and use cases that create immense value for BCOs globally and deliver unmatched value for the global supply chain marketplace.

project44 is on a mission to make supply chains work. As the supply chain connective tissue, project44 operates the world's most trusted end-to-end visibility platform that tracks more than 1 billion unique shipments annually for over 1,300 of the world's leading brands, including top companies in manufacturing, automotive, retail, life sciences, food & beverage, CPG, and oil, chemical & gas. Using project44, shippers and carriers across the globe drive greater predictability, resiliency and sustainability.