Silk Way West Airlines expands digital booking access through CargoAi
Silk Way West Airlines is expanding its digital distribution capabilities through its partnership with CargoAi, providing more than 30,000 freight forwarders with seamless access to the airline’s capacity, real-time rates, and eBooking services across key markets in the USA, Europe and Asia. Building on the digital partnership announced at Air Cargo China 2026 in Shanghai, the integration now enables bookings for general cargo, lithium batteries, and dangerous goods through CargoMART, and direct connections to leading Transport Management Systems via CargoCONNECT, providing greater visibility, automation, and reach across multiple booking environments throughout the airline’s service network.
The development marks the next stage of Silk Way West Airlines’ digital transformation and reflects the airline’s broader strategy to make its cargo capacity and services increasingly accessible through the digital environments used by freight forwarders worldwide. The original partnership agreement established the framework for enhanced rate visibility and future digital booking capabilities. The expanded integration now translates that framework into a wider digital distribution offering for customers.
Through CargoAi’s ecosystem, freight forwarders can access Silk Way West Airlines’ capacity across multiple booking environments, providing greater flexibility in how they search for rates, identify available capacity, and manage bookings. The connection through CargoMART and CargoCONNECT is designed to improve visibility, automation, and accessibility while supporting a faster and seamless customer experience.
“Expanding our digital distribution in retail is an important part of how we continue to evolve our customer experience,” said Wolfgang Meier, President of Silk Way West Airlines. “Through our partnership with CargoAi, freight forwarders now have another way to access our capacity, rates, and services through the digital channels they use every day. By making our offering more visible and easier to book, we are creating a more efficient customer journey while continuing to strengthen the digital capabilities of our global network.”
“We are proud to continue developing our partnership with Silk Way West Airlines,” said Matthieu Petot, Founder and CEO of CargoAi. “By combining Silk Way West Airlines’ dedicated widebody freighter capacity and global network with CargoAi’s digital ecosystem, we are making capacity and pricing more easily accessible to freight forwarders across multiple booking environments. This expanded integration creates more opportunities for forwarders to connect with Silk Way West Airlines while supporting the airline’s continued digital growth.”
The continued development of digital distribution supports the airline’s commitment to improving customer experience, expanding access to its cargo capacity and adopting innovative solutions across its global operations.
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About Silk Way West Airlines
Founded in 2012 in Baku, at the heart of the Silk Road, Silk Way West Airlines operates hundreds of flights every month across the globe via its fleet of Boeing 777F, 747-8F, and 747-400F aircraft based at Heydar Aliyev International Airport. In line with its commitment to sustainability and efficiency, Silk Way West Airlines plans to renew its fleet with new state-of-the-art aircraft by 2030, including Boeing 777F, Boeing 777-8F, and Airbus A350F freighters, to better meet global logistics demands.
The airline offers comprehensive cargo services to over 40 global destinations across Europe, the CIS, the Middle East, Asia, and the Americas, managing an annual cargo turnover exceeding 500,000 tons.
About CargoAi
CargoAi is the leading vertical AI company in air cargo and the industry’s fastest-growing digital enabler, shaping and connecting the freight landscape through innovation. Led by industry experts, the company offers a complete ecosystem of digital solutions designed to drive frictionless procurement, booking, connectivity, payment and sustainability.
CargoAi combines best-in-class technology standards, a strong ability to execute and a comprehensive vision to transform the freight industry. Its ecosystem enables airlines and freight forwarders to access rates, eBookings, tracking and digital collaboration across multiple channels and systems.
Built on an extensive network of live data connections with airlines, freight forwarders, GHAs and airports, CargoAi also deploys AI workers and AI agents to automate quoting, booking and shipment management workflows.
With CargoWALLET, CargoAi also provides a technology-first freight payment solution designed to accelerate secure and instant global payments across more than 150 countries and 47 currencies.
In 2026, CargoAi received three prestigious industry awards: Solution Provider of the Year by Air Cargo Week, Best Air Cargo Technology Ecosystem 2026, and the Air Cargo Digital Transformation Leader Award 2026, recognizing its leadership, continuous innovation and significant contribution to the digital transformation of the global air cargo industry.
CargoAi is also a member of CargoTech, an organization whose mission is to serve as a one-stop shop for digital transformation in the air cargo industry. Headquartered in Singapore, CargoAi operates with teams across every continent.
