Air France Cargo is joining GF-X immediately and will make its products available via the Exchange as soon as its technical integration is complete. "Air France Cargo has decided to join GF-X to benefit from the most advanced electronic marketplace in the industry. This will help us to make our differentiated product offering electronically available to the leading international forwarders," said Marc Boudier, Executive Vice President of Air France Cargo.Lufthansa Cargo, a member of GF-X since 2000, announced that forwarders will be able to book its major product td.Pro as well as allotments via GF-X in the near term. Currently Lufthansa Cargo offers td.Flash on GF-X, but will be rolling out more products in 2002. Dr. Andreas Otto, Member of the Executive Board of Lufthansa Cargo, commented, "In the future we will be working even more closely together with GF-X and our forwarders in order to drive the migration to e-business in the air cargo industry."

British Airways World Cargo, also a member of GF-X since 2000, announced that they will continue to implement GF-X as their preferred e-commerce channel. "Our business is global by nature and it therefore makes sense to automate the booking process with a common global platform, rather than with regional solutions," said Gareth Kirkwood, Managing Director of British Airways World Cargo.

Finally, GF-X has achieved another record month during January in terms of booking numbers. The average growth rate month on month since it went live in October 2000 is over 60% with bookings now exceeding 30,000 per month.