time:matters links with cargo.one

Time critical forwarder time:matters has partnered with cargo.one on the use of its online booking platform.

The partnership will give time:matters’ team the ability to quote and book capacity from over 60 airlines on a 24/7 basis, which the company hopes will reduce the time it takes to quote.

“The significant savings in team time allows the company to redeploy its logistics experts to focus on more complex, customer-facing tasks,” the company said.

The platform will be implemented across time:matters’ offices in the US, Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, Singapore and China.

Lars Krosch, chief operating officer at time:matters, said: “By further digitalising our buying rate process and leveraging more agile quotation and booking capabilities with cargo.one, we are taking another significant step towards enhancing our customer experience.

“This partnership is in line with our long-term strategy to strengthen our competitiveness, improve the efficiency of our teams and deliver continuously more value to our customers.”

Simson Demmer, vice president partnerships at cargo.one, added: “Our collaboration with time:matters highlights the importance of digital airfreight procurement for time-critical logistics.”

The deal is the second tie-up with a forwarder announced by cargo.one in recent months.

In-mid August, the booking platform announced that it had created a dircet API connection with DB Schenker allowing the forwarder to book on cargo.one directly through its own systems.

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.

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