cargo.one Founder Moritz Claussen awarded the TIACA Rising Star Award

cargo.one announced that its Founder & Co-CEO, Moritz Claussen, has received the TIACA Rising Star Award. Presented by The International Air Cargo Association (TIACA) 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.”