Air Freight Bazaar launches services globally; aims at meeting all needs

India's first global Air Cargo aggregator platform Air Freight Bazaar has announced the launch of its services in India here today.

The platform is world's first air freight aggregator that provides freight forwarding rates and information related to the overall air cargo industry in real-time. Air Freight Bazaar's unique, single, global platform aims at addressing all the needs and requirements of the air cargo Industry bringing transparency, simplicity and efficiency into the process.

All information related to the Air Cargo Industry such as benchmark prices, incentives and spot rates, export, import, cross-trade and domestic tariff, software such as airway bill, house awb, barcode label, flight schedules and flight status and tracking with day-to-day update amongst others will be provided by the company on its platform.

"Our competitive edge lies in the value added services that we provide, such as user-friendly and user-defined quotation formats, printable formats of customized AWB printing, Barcode Generator, , information regarding airport tariff, demurrage charges, facilities with charges, flight schedules, flight status and AMS information," said co-founder Air Freight Bazaar, Nivesh Jain.

"We will provide these services in addition to the regular ones such as information on export rates, import rates, cross trade rates, India domestic rates, airport codes and cargo tracking services," added Jain.

"Our ultimate goal is to organize and digitize the logistics industry, thereby making it more efficient and increasing its contribution to India's GDP. We also look forward to cut logistics cost and facilitate real-time information dissemination which in turn will encourage small-scale importers and exporters to sprout up in the country," said co-founder of Air Freight Bazaar, Vinay Sethia.

The company will work on a membership model with a basic annual remuneration of USD 100 charged per user-per city for its services. The company will also be providing a plethora of benefits and services to all its stakeholders such as airlines, freight forwarders, platinum members, importers and exporters, custom brokers, air charters, airports, warehousing agents and transporters.