The latest options are Descartes GF-X Exchange and SAS Cargo Online Service Center, which appeal to different groups of forwarding agents.
'Descartes has been our preferred provider for air messaging for almost 20 years so joining Descartes' Global GF-X Exchange is a natural progression in our relationship and complements our existing Descartes services, which have been very successful to date,' says Nils Pries Knudsen, Vice President, Global Sales at SAS Cargo. 'We are responding to the interest from freight forwarders in being able to book cargo shipments electronically through this channel as well. This is an integral part of our continuing commitment to improve service, accuracy and efficiency in the air cargo shipment management process'.
Descartes GF-X Exchange is one of the largest electronic information and reservation systems in the airfreight industry and the preferred choice of global freight forwarders. Airfreight forwarders can access carrier information, make e-bookings and track shipments via a web browser around the clock.
Online Service Center is an additional'easy-to-use'e-booking function directed at'small/medium sized customers, who are not using'other e-booking facilities. This system is a part of SAS Cargos backbone system, Sirius. The functionalities that Online Service Center offers are online booking, flight schedules, rate quotes, shipment status and multiple shipment status.
In addition to these new online booking systems SAS Cargo offers the e-booking facilities through CCS (Cargo Community System) and CPS (Cargo Portal Services).
