Press Releases 2006
OAG Cargo and Conducive Technology Corporation Sign Agreement
12 July 2006
ITeaming up to provide fast, cost saving shipment routing decision support to worldwide cargo community
Effective immediately, OAG is the exclusive worldwide agent for Conducive Technology’s Pathfinder products and services. OAG Cargo’s international airfreight customers can now access a new level of decision support for shipment routing and shipment monitoring.
Under the terms of the agreement OAG will also be supplying their comprehensive global schedules information to support Conducive Technology’s range of products and services.
OAG already provides a growing portfolio of cargo schedules, data and internet technology solutions, including the Inforwarding operational announcements service for airlines and freight forwarders and the Air Freight Rates (AFRA) database. This latest move is another key building block in OAG’s ambition to provide a global cargo portal.
Mike Navin, Director of Cargo Services at OAG Worldwide, said: “Pathfinder is a world class solution that complements our overall strategy of establishing alliances with leading technology partners who can provide added features and benefits for our customers. It will enhance the schedules information we already provide by allowing customers to access information on direct flights, connections and to build their own routings using the dynamic market intelligence Pathfinder offers.
“This important new partnership with Conducive Technology Corp. will enable OAG customers to plan freight shipments accurately and faster than ever before and make better, more cost efficient decisions for themselves and their customers even on the most complex routings.”
As part of its full suite of information services, Pathfinder also provides road feeder schedules, flight status, airport and weather status information and event notification. In addition, Pathfinder offers Webservices, and Application Program Interfaces (APIs) that enable users to integrate schedules data directly into their own systems.
Jeff Kennedy, CEO of Conducive Technology, added: “This is a win-win deal for both organizations. OAG gives us access to unsurpassed schedules data and a global sales and marketing resource for our Pathfinder services while, in return, OAG Cargo customers will now have an up-to-the-minute source of air cargo and truck information that will enable them to improve their bottom line through the best routing decision support and status notification.”
US MEDIA CONTACT: Dan Dulik
630.515.5167
ddulik@oag.com
About OAG
OAG is a global travel and transport information company.
We have three core activities:
- managing and distributing information within the passenger and cargo aviation sectors
- providing travel information to business travelers
- providing advertising and promotion opportunities for the aviation and travel communities.
Our business is underpinned by our data management expertise. We hold a breadth of travel related content and are best known for our airline schedules database. This holds future and historical flight details for 1,000 airlines and more than 3,500 airports. Every ten seconds a flight is updated on the OAG system. Over the coming year we are tracking around 27 million departures.
Using these vast databases, we provide a broad range of multi-lingual products for business and consumer customers, available in virtually any way the customer wants it: Internet, PDA, mobile, digital and print.
We are a private company with 400 employees based in 9 offices in Europe, the Americas and
Asia.
More information about our company, our products and our services is available on our web sites
www.oag.com, www.oagdata.com, www.oagcargo.com and www.inforwarding.com
About Conducive Technology
Conducive Technology Corp. is a data services provider focused on delivering innovative information solutions to the travel and logistics industries.
Conducive delivers real-time and historical flight performance information that helps customers immediately lower their travel and shipping costs, and improve customer service. At the core of the company’s Pathfinder product is real-time and historical global flight information that is comprehensive, timely and objective. This information can deliver tremendous value at each stage of the travel or shipping transaction, by informing supplier and booking decisions, driving status and notification services, and enhancing post-flight performance analysis.
Conducive Technology has broad experience in travel, including development of high-volume e-commerce web sites and web infrastructure for several major airlines. The privately held company is based in Portland, Oregon.