CargoTech welcomes its fifth member CharterSync

Leading air charter company CharterSync will now bring its air cargo charter expertise to the digital air cargo project CargoTech by becoming its fifth member. Apart from expanding the group’s product palette, with this move, CharterSync will also be directing a strong digital focus toward an air cargo niche that is still largely manual.

While digitalisation within the air cargo charter segment has largely been unexplored to date, CharterSync joining the CargoTech family opens up an entirely new product offering. The industry still lags behind scheduled air cargo capacity processes, and operations are still highly manual.

The addition of CharterSync as the group’s fifth member offers forwarders and airlines a unique opportunity to bring enhanced value and efficiency to their charter process without compromising on service levels. It also further expands the CargoTech ecosystem to include experts across all segments, capable of elaborating on the big picture whilst at the same time tailoring solutions to individual customer requirements.

“Our growth journey is proof that we are driving innovation throughout our platform and services, and we are delighted to be joining CargoTech. Being part of the CargoTech group inspires us to think bigger, reach higher, and remain committed to delivering exceptional value and transforming the air cargo charter industry,” Ed Gillett, Co-Founder of CharterSync said while speaking on the development.

That value not only focuses on speed and efficiency but also on a greener future for the industry. “Enabling our clients to fly sustainably has been at the forefront of our strategy since we launched in 2019. CargoTech and CharterSync share the same sustainability commitment and mindset. Joining the group allows us all to work collaboratively to reduce CO2 emissions and to play a crucial and powerful lobbying force for change,” Gillett concluded.

In the four years since its founding by ex-cargo charter brokers and commercial pilots, Ed Gillett and Simon Watson, CharterSync has established itself as the leading digital innovator for charter operations.

CharterSync is among the first and leading players to offer a fully integrated digital end-to-end booking process and management system for freight forwarders.

“CargoTech aims at providing the most relevant digital solution to every cargo business process. What we were missing until now, was an expert for air cargo charter operations to drive the much-needed digital transformation in this segment. Since launching in 2019, CharterSync has built an innovative, tech-informed, and fresh-thinking global air cargo charter business from the ground up and gained a well-deserved reputation as an industry innovator at the forefront of the next generation of air charter,” says Cedric Millet, President of CargoTech.

“It was clear from the first time we talked at the IATA World Cargo Symposium in London last year, and again at the Air Cargo Forum in Miami a few months later, that CargoTech and CharterSync were a perfect symbiosis to remove manual pain points from air cargo charter operations and deliver best-in-class digital transformation in their stead,” he added.

Within CargoTech, CharterSync’s expertise creates a significant number of natural synergies with the other members that will now be explored. One immediate example is adapting Wiremind Cargo’s SkyPallet within CharterSync’s solution.

As per an official company release, all five members of the group will meet together for the first time in October 2023, to further develop the CargoTech product roadmap.