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cargo.one Founder Moritz Claussen awarded the TIACA Rising Star Award
- TIACA recognized Moritz Claussen’s vision, industry advocacy, and work building and scaling cargo.one as contributing to wholesale digital transformation and excellence in air cargo
Hong Kong | Berlin, June 25, 2025 – cargo.one, the leading digital air freight platform, today announced that its Founder & Co-CEO, Moritz Claussen, has received the TIACA Rising Star Award. Presented by The International Air Cargo Association (TIACA) today at its Executive Summit in Hong Kong, the award celebrates the young leader who has, in recent years, driven significant impact on the industry through innovation, leadership, and the ability to inspire meaningful change.
Moritz Claussen’s win marks a moment of significant recognition for both his personal contributions and cargo.one’s rapid progress in digitalizing air freight procurement and sales. Since 2017, Moritz and his co-founders Oliver Neumann and Mike Rötgers have conducted years of extensive advocacy and education for both air cargo airline teams and freight forwarders worldwide, to help scale the vast gains that strategic infrastructure and tooling provide to the industry.
TIACA has recognized how Moritz has directly contributed to enhancing the way airlines and freight forwarders communicate and conduct business digitally. The TIACA Rising Star Award is widely regarded as a benchmark for next-generation excellence in the industry – highlighting future leaders and fostering innovation and continued progress.
Glyn Hughes, Director General of TIACA, comments, “We are proud to award Moritz as the first TIACA Rising Star. Moritz’s passion, dedication and delivery reflect the best of what this award stands for — measurable industry impact, user-driven innovation, and the ability to inspire. Air logistics is at its heart a people-business, and Moritz continually builds relationships, enthuses and mobilizes stakeholders at all levels to effect meaningful change.”
Moritz Claussen, Founder and Co-CEO of cargo.one, responds to the award: “It is a great honor, especially in light of the many leaders and innovations across the ecosystem. This award is really a reflection of the work our team performs every day to build a digitally integrated global air cargo community that puts freight customers first. It gives me great joy to see firsthand that digital freight today is firmly established as a cornerstone of the industry, and is delivering powerful benefits. We are more energized and focused than ever to deliver a new era in connected global air cargo.”
Today, cargo.one is established as the backbone of efficient air freight booking and quoting – relied upon by 25,000 users within the majority of the Top 20 global forwarders and thousands of SMBs, and is available in 134 countries worldwide. cargo.one is partnered with carriers that represent 75% of global capacity, and offers a full range of customizable, enterprise-ready digital solutions for all aspects of end-to-end procurement, sales and booking.
About TIACA
TIACA is The International Air CargoAssociation, based in Miami, Florida. TIACA is the unique internationalnot-for-profit association representing and uniting all parts of the air cargoindustry: shippers, forwarders, ground handlers, airports, airlines,manufacturers, IT providers. TIACA members are traditional players and newentrants, small, medium, and large companies with regional and global reach.
TIACA’s vision is a safe, profitable andunited air cargo industry that embraces modern technologies and practices tosustainably and fairly serve trade and social development worldwide.
TIACA’s mission is to support, lead andunite the industry to achieve that vision; promote and encourage business,social, and technological innovation; protect the interests of its members withone voice on common interests; disseminate and enhance knowledge amongstmembers and the air cargo industry.
For more details visit www.tiaca.org. For regular updates, follow www.twitter.com/tiacaorg.
cargo.one (Cargo One GmbH) is the leading platform for booking and managing air freight capacity, transforming how airlines and freight forwarders operate and deliver value to their customers.
For airlines, cargo.one provides the most cost-effective and efficient digital distribution channel, driving bookings and elevating customer experiences, while significantly reducing distribution costs. For freight forwarders, cargo.one is a comprehensive solution that empowers them to seamlessly manage buy rates, derive dynamic sell rates, and quote customers (shippers) near instantly. Forwarders also gain 24/7 access to live and static rates from over 70 airlines globally, enabling accurate comparisons, bookings, and shipment tracking
cargo.one pro equips forwarders with tools to optimize every step of their shipment workflows, while cargo.one for enterprise offers advanced API technology, delivering real-time rates, schedules, availability, and prices through a unified platform. Trusted by over 25,000 freight forwarders and available in 134 countries, cargo.one has become the backbone of efficient air freight booking and quoting.
Backed by leading investors such as Bessemer Venture Partners, Index Ventures, Creandum, and Lufthansa Cargo, cargo.one continues to set new standards in digitalizing the air cargo industry.
Media contact
Richard Stevenson
richard.stevenson@cargo.one
