Recorded at Air Cargo China in Shanghai, Mike sits down with Cédric Millet, President of CargoTech, for an exclusive look at how one company is pulling air cargo’s software under a single roof.
CargoTech is a holding company, backed by the same owner as ECS Group, the world’s largest cargo GSA. It brings together specialist software companies, each focused on its own domain. Millet’s pitch is a simple one: “we know cargo.” He argues that because the portfolio’s leaders came out of airlines, forwarders and GSAs, their software is built to solve cargo’s real pain points, a claim he draws in contrast to the wave of generic tech newcomers now entering the space.
What Mike and Cédric get into:
- Millet’s case for why a group of specialists beats one do-everything platform
- The “we know cargo” argument, and why he thinks domain expertise wins
- How the group aims to cover the airline’s full commercial chain, from capacity and revenue management to forecasting, distribution and charters
- His claim that CargoTech covers around 75% of airline needs today, and plans to expand into cargo operations, compliance and sanctions checks
- The 105 airlines and 20,000+ forwarders he says are connected
- The new Kuala Lumpur hub
- Why he sees clean data as the foundation
- Where AI actually fits, with Millet framing co-pilots and agentic automation as tools rather than the headline
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Guest: Cédric Millet, President of CargoTech, and Chief Strategy & Digital Officer, ECS Group