Freightos taps mas freighter network for Latin America air cargo push

Freightos has signed an agreement with cargo airline mas to bring widebody freighter capacity onto its booking platform, giving freight forwarders in Los Angeles and across Mexico a new digital channel into Latin America's main-deck cargo market.

The deal matters because of what it stitches together. Forwarders on the Freightos platform will be able to search for mas capacity, book cargo space in real time and pay for it — all inside one integrated system that pairs Freightos' electronic booking engine with Freightos Pay, the company's digital payment product.

That combination is the commercial heart of the story. Digital booking alone is now common in air cargo. Digital booking plus integrated settlement, on a dedicated freighter network flying between North America and Latin America, is rarer.

What does the deal actually cover?

The integration, once live, will make mas's dedicated freighter network serving destinations throughout Latin America bookable through Freightos. The initial rollout targets freight forwarders operating in Los Angeles and across Mexico — two gateways where north-south main-deck capacity is in steady demand from shippers moving time-sensitive and high-value goods.

For mas, the agreement adds a distribution channel. The airline keeps its existing sales routes and gains a platform that reaches forwarders it might not otherwise touch. Eduardo Cedilli, Senior Manager, Sales at mas, said the integration will help the airline reach more freight forwarders while simplifying its booking and payment processes.

For forwarders, the pitch is narrower but practical. The service aims to cut manual booking procedures — emails, phone calls, back-and-forth on availability — and collapse payment arrangements into the same workflow. Flexible payment options are also expected to help forwarders manage cash flow when they secure cargo space, which in air freight often means locking in capacity before revenue from the shipper lands.

Replacing friction with execution

Freightos CEO Pablo Pinillos framed the mechanics plainly: "By pairing mas's dedicated widebody network with Freightos Pay, we are replacing administrative friction with instant execution."

That sentence describes the mechanism. Today, a forwarder booking main-deck space on a Latin American lane typically quotes, confirms and settles across separate steps, often across separate counterparties. The Freightos-mas setup compresses those steps into one transaction. The companies expect the partnership to support faster bookings and improve access to available capacity — meaning forwarders see lift that exists rather than guessing at it.

The widebody detail is not incidental. Main-deck freighter capacity, as opposed to belly space in passenger aircraft, is what large, dense or bulky cargo requires. Adding a widebody freighter network to a digital booking platform directly expands the category of freight that can be quoted and executed online on North America–Latin America routes.

What's still open?

Two gaps remain. Freightos has not announced a launch date for the integration. And neither company has specified how many aircraft will be included — so the actual capacity the platform adds to the market is, for now, unquantified.

That leaves the deal's near-term significance more structural than numeric. It extends digital booking-and-payment infrastructure deeper into a trade region where forwarder processes have traditionally run on manual rails, and it gives a cargo airline a low-friction route to a wider forwarder base.

For forwarders in Los Angeles and Mexico, the practical question is timing: when the integration goes live, they gain a single-platform path to mas's Latin American freighter network — and one less settlement chase on the accounts side. Watch for a launch date and fleet scope as the next concrete markers of how much capacity actually moves online.