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Understand your cargo market. Identify leakage. Build stronger route strategies.

Access detailed air cargo market intelligence to support air service development, uncover opportunities, understand cargo flows, and build data-backed discussions with airlines and freight forwarders.

 

Turn cargo data into actionable insights

Growing your airport’s cargo business requires more than high-level statistics. You need actionable data to understand how cargo actually moves across your market and who the key stakeholders are.

CargoIS provides visibility into trade lanes, commodity flows, routing, airline activity, and freight forwarder behavior, helping you move from assumptions to data-backed decisions. Whether you are developing new routes or strengthening existing partnerships, CargoIS supports your air service development strategy with the insights needed to build stronger business cases.

How CargoIS supports airport decision-making

 

  • Identify real cargo opportunities: Understand demand across trade lanes and uncover hidden opportunities within your catchment area, including indirect flows and leakage to competing airports.
  • Build stronger airline business cases: Support route development discussions with clear, data-backed insights on cargo demand, routing, and market potential.
  • Engage freight forwarders with confidence: Identify which forwarders control cargo flows in your market and engage them with targeted, relevant insights.
  • Benchmark against competing airports: Compare your performance across routes, airlines, and competing airports to understand where you are gaining or losing market share.

What you can analyze with CargoIS

Gain a detailed view of your cargo market, from demand and routing to capacity, commodities, and the key players shaping cargo flows. CargoIS enables you to analyze:

 
  • Cargo demand across airport-to-airport trade lanes
  • Airline and freight forwarder activity
  • Direct and indirect routing patterns
  • Commodity flows (e.g. pharma, perishables)
  • Export, import, and transit traffic
  • Capacity and aircraft deployment on key routes

Data sourced from real cargo transactions

CargoIS is built on high-quality, transaction-based data from IATA’s Cargo Accounts Settlement System (CASS) and contributed data, covering over 300 airlines worldwide. It provides extensive global coverage, including 30,000+ freight forwarders and 200+ airlines across 80,000+ city-to-city and 140,000+ airport-to-airport trade lanes. CargoIS Capacity is derived from a unique combination of executed daily flight data, a global fleet database by aircraft model and operator, and aircraft-specific payload information.

 

Ready to explore your cargo market in more detail?

Discover how CargoIS can support your airport’s cargo strategy with tailored insights.

 

Frequently asked questions

CargoIS is built on transaction-level data from IATA’s Cargo Accounts Settlement System (CASS), complemented by contributed data, providing high accuracy and global coverage across over 300 airlines.

It enables airports to analyze airlines and freight forwarders together, including detailed forwarder-level insights, supporting more targeted commercial discussions.

CargoIS Capacity is built on actual, executed flight data, providing a precise view of flown cargo capacity by route, capacity type, aircraft model, and airline.

CargoIS helps airports identify cargo demand, understand routing patterns, and quantify market potential. These insights support stronger business cases for airlines and help prioritize route development opportunities.

Yes. CargoIS provides visibility into indirect flows and routing patterns, allowing you to identify where cargo is being routed through other airports and quantify missed opportunities.

CargoIS includes detailed insights on:

  • Airport-to-airport trade lanes
  • Airline and forwarder activity
  • Routing (direct and indirect)
  • Commodity flows
  • Capacity and aircraft deployment

Yes. CargoIS supports airports of all sizes. Whether you are developing your cargo strategy or optimizing an established network, the platform helps identify opportunities and support data-driven decisions.