IN Brief:
- Freightos signed an agreement on 20 October to add mas widebody freighter capacity to its future electronic booking offering.
- The planned integration combines real-time booking with Freightos Pay for qualifying forwarders in Los Angeles and Mexico.
- Neither company has disclosed a go-live date, participating flight inventory, verified processing gains or universal payment eligibility.
Freightos has signed an agreement with cargo airline mas to bring the carrier’s dedicated widebody freighter network onto its electronic booking platform, alongside integrated payment options. Announced on 20 October, the proposed connection targets forwarders operating through Los Angeles and Mexico on routes into Latin America. It is an upcoming integration: the companies have not confirmed that mas inventory is already bookable through the new connection.
Under the plan, forwarders would receive real-time electronic booking access and could use Freightos Pay during the same transaction. The partners have not announced a live date, disclosed how many flights or tonnes of capacity will be listed, or provided a route-by-route inventory schedule. The agreement concerns the distribution of space on existing freighter operations; it does not, by itself, add an aircraft, introduce a new scheduled service or increase the maximum payload available on a flight.
Air cargo bookings can involve several steps between a shipper’s initial request and the confirmation of a place on a flight. Forwarders must match weight, volume, dimensions, commodity restrictions and requested departure dates with space offered by an airline. For large consignments, availability on the main deck of a freighter can be significant because cargo aircraft may accommodate loads that are unsuitable for the lower holds of passenger services. A published electronic availability response helps the forwarder decide whether to proceed, but the underlying aircraft loading rules and cargo acceptance checks remain in force.
The companies intend to connect mas’s dedicated freighter capacity directly with the pricing and booking workflows used by Freightos customers. Instead of relying solely on separate requests for quotations and later manual booking confirmation, an eligible forwarder would be able to see an offer, select the relevant capacity and progress towards a booking within one digital process. The agreement is a distribution and transaction change; it does not establish that mas is adding new aircraft, launching additional routes or increasing the physical payload available on a particular flight.
Freightos Pay is intended to bring settlement into the electronic booking sequence. Freightos says this could lessen the need for separate upfront arrangements or bank guarantees and improve working-capital flexibility for participating forwarders. However, its announcement does not disclose the mas-specific eligibility criteria, fees, currencies or credit limits. A flexible payment process cannot be described as automatic unsecured credit for every customer, and no realised savings from this particular integration have yet been reported.
Forwarders arranging urgent movements of machinery spares, electronic components and production materials often have narrow delivery windows in which to compare flights and obtain confirmed uplift. Digital offers could shorten the commercial exchange, provided live space data are current and the consignment meets the airline’s acceptance rules. Freightos has not released a measured reduction in booking time for mas, and no before-and-after shipment performance data are available for the planned connection.
A booking confirmation is still only one stage of a physical air freight movement. Air waybill information, export declarations, cargo security screening, dimensions, dangerous goods acceptance and warehouse tender deadlines must align with the booked flight. A forwarder that completes the commercial transaction online may still miss uplift if the actual consignment differs from what the airline accepted or reaches the handling agent after cut-off. Those operational controls continue to apply regardless of the sales channel.
mas would gain a prospective sales channel to forwarders already using the Freightos platform. Selected flight inventory could be displayed without separate manual quotation, potentially making offers easier to compare for smaller customers. The commercial outcome will depend on which flights and prices are connected, the terms applied and forwarder adoption after launch. Freightos has not disclosed a transaction target or revenue contribution from the agreement.
Latin American air freight routes can be difficult to compare because frequencies, transfer points, handling facilities and customs requirements vary between origins and destinations. Broad regional coverage does not mean a single direct flight exists for every possible lane. The companies have named Los Angeles and Mexican gateways as initial areas of focus, while referring more generally to mas’s network of Latin American destinations. Individual services and schedules therefore need to be confirmed when bookings become available.
The agreement establishes a proposed booking and payment workflow, with no public go-live date or measured results for the mas connection. The practical test will be whether participating forwarders can view live space, obtain a confirmed booking and settle the transaction without re-entering information into separate systems. Performance, coverage and pricing comparisons will only become possible once the new inventory has been connected and the service is operating.
