IAG Cargo website deploys Descartes cloud-based air cargo booking

IAG CARGO has extended its relationship with Descartes Systems Group to include air cargo booking through Descartes' cloud-based Global Freight Exchange (GF-X) Private Label solution.

The solution from the global leader in uniting logistics-intensive businesses in commerce will support iagcargo.com, the carrier's electronic booking portal for freight forwarders.

IAG Cargo customers will be able to use the private-label solution to book cargo through the iagcargo.com website and check booking options against their shipment needs. The system responds with details on available cargo capacity and rates, said a report from Globe Newswire.

Descartes' GF-X is one of the largest electronic information and reservation systems in the air freight industry. Air freight carriers can distribute real-time product, routing, capacity and rate information to their forwarders worldwide. Air freight forwarders can access carrier information, make electronic bookings and track shipments via a web browser 24/7.

Angel Cabeza, head of Distribution and IT Platform at IAG Cargo, said GF-X Private Label is a cost-effective and proven solution that "will help us support our existing network of large freight forwarders and will also be highly beneficial in helping us target the SME market, which we see as being of great value over the coming years."