Hellmann Worldwide Logistics (Hellmann) has announced a new strategic technology partnership with digital air freight platform cargo.one, marking a major step forward in the global forwarder’s digitalisation of air cargo procurement and sales.

Under the partnership, Hellmann will integrate multiple cargo.one solutions – including Advanced Rate Management, Quotes API, Live Estimates data and cargo.one pro – into its systems to streamline quoting, rate management and capacity procurement.

The integration aims to increase efficiency, automation and productivity across Hellmann’s airfreight operations while improving customer experience and market agility.

The collaboration replaces several legacy systems with a single digital ecosystem, enabling faster, data-driven quoting through Hellmann’s proprietary ‘HITS’ quotation tool, fully integrated with its CargoWise One TMS.

Teams will benefit from greater rate visibility and accuracy, improved cost control and enhanced procurement performance analytics.

Martin Habisreitinger, chief operating officer airfreight at Hellmann, said: “Our co-built solution with cargo.one is a further step in advancing our air freight digitalisation. The new technology significantly enhances the digital customer experience and marks a key milestone in realising our strategic ambition, which places customer experience at the core of everything we do.”

Moritz Claussen, founder and co-chief executive of cargo.one, added: “We are thrilled to enable Hellmann to drive a full spectrum of gains from digital air freight procurement and sales. The latest infrastructure and tooling from cargo.one now elevates Hellmann’s teams with the optimal rate transparency, consistency and management they require to craft winning, value-added solutions.”

Oliver Marschall, vice president global airfreight operations and procurement at Hellmann, commented that the partnership represents “a transformative shift in modern logistics technology”, allowing the forwarder to “ensure consistent access to the most accurate and competitive end-to-end pricing, boost market responsiveness, and apply insights to continually improve operational performance”.

Through cargo.one’s scalable infrastructure, Hellmann will gain the ability to define and optimise sell rates consistently across its global operations, achieving improved reliability, data quality and quoting performance.

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