3D air cargo load planning

From ULD build-up to full freighters - planned in 3D, flown as booked

Turn packing lists into contour-aware ULD builds and aircraft load plans in seconds - and share them with the warehouse and the ground handler.

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Implementation at Schiphol (AMS)

One of the top 5 largest forwarders conducted a study in the spring of 2020 at Schiphol (AMS) to evaluate the effects of implementing our tool for air container load planning. The results?

Load factor increased

Higher capacity utilization!

Flown as booked percentage increased

Higher customer satisfaction!

We have been using Cargo-Planner in our busy London hub for the past two years. Our focus has been on improving the efficiency of ULD build planning and the tool produces great results through a very user friendly interface.
Steven Blunden, Business Change Manager, IAG Cargo

Fits on paper - but not under the crown

ULD positions taper with the fuselage, and flat-floor arithmetic quietly overbuilds them. Cargo-Planner loads against each ULD's real contours - and adds bottom spacers where raising the load wins back the space above the net edges - so the build fits the position it's booked on.

Offloads are planning failures - fly what you booked

Cargo left at the ramp means re-booking, re-handling and a shipper who heard a promise that didn't fly. In the Schiphol study above, flown-as-booked rates went up once the booked build and the buildable build stopped being different things.

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From single ULDs to full freighters

Automatic bottom raise

Air pallets can often be utilized more if loading for example empty pallets in the bottom to raise the load and utilize the space above the edges used for attaching the cargo securing nets. Set the automatic bottom spacer property and the tool will check if this increases the utilization and add this dunnage material for you!

/_astro/pmc p6p with automatic bottom spacer

Lower body containers

Air pallets and containers are usually restricted by the shape of the aircraft body, and it can be hard to calculate how to utilize these containers. With Cargo-Planner this is not a problem!

Upper body containers

Using contours at the bottom of the containers makes it possible to create lower body containers and the same way for upper body contours. See all the pallets and containers we have available in our Equipment Library.

Load Aircrafts

Do you have entire aircrafts that you want to load? No problem, select your aircraft from our library of aircraft models and load all ULDs in seconds. Our aim is to make the aircraft loading process as simple and stress-free as possible, allowing you to focus on other important aspects of your business.

Special loads

If you have special loads like for example long pieces of cargoes that need to stretch over several positions you can do that as well. The tool will make sure it does not intersect with other cargoes.

Build and customize Aircrafts

Can't find a suitable aircraft in our library? You can customize an existing aircraft or build your own with our Set Builder to make sure that all your requirements are fulfilled. If you need any help creating your aircraft, we will gladly assist you.

Shipping factor

A shipping factor can be set to calculate the volumetric weight of cargoes which is used to determine the density of the cargo by incorporating both dimensions and weight. The volumetric weight is compared against the package’s actual weight. The heaviest value of these weights is used as the chargeable weight which is considered when loading the cargoes.

Working on International Logistics for Touring within the Music Industry, Cargo-Planner has been an exceptional support to me in fine tuning the most suitable Chartered Aircraft when planning tour schedules and ensuring the correct equipment is utilised with precision, to stay competitive and on budget.
Joe O´Malley, ROCK-IT GLOBAL

Simplicity, flexibility & performance enhancing - Working with Cargo-Planner has made Airspace Aviation more efficient on planning flights due to the simplicity involved. The flexibility of the Cargo-Planner team working alongside us to create a planner from a vision to a reality is superb.
Mike Rowe-Eyres, Airspace Aviation Solutions

Why teams pick Cargo-Planner

Built around your rules

Contours, bottom spacers, your own ULDs and custom aircraft - encode how your operation actually builds, and every plan follows it.

Support from the engineers

No tiers, no ticket limbo: questions go to the team that writes the code - "extremely helpful and supportive", as La-Z-Boy's operations team puts it.

Fits your existing workflow

Send loadlists from your TMS or ERP and get finished load plans back - through the API or partner platforms like Neurored.

Every mode, one tool

ULDs, aircraft, containers, trailers and pallets in one subscription - "be it by road, sea, air or breakbulk - a true win-win solution", as deugro's branch manager puts it.

Nothing to install

Runs entirely in the browser: no desktop installs, no IT rollout - sign in and plan from anywhere.

No specialist required

Planners are productive on day one - "easy to learn", creating "load plans in minutes rather than spending hours", as Momart's head of shipping puts it.

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Learn more about air cargo loading

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Dimensions, capacities and specifications, kept up to date.

ULD types and dimensions
An AKE (LD-3) is 1.92 × 1.45 × 1.62 m inside and takes 1,516 kg; a PMC has a 125 × 96" base and builds to 96" on a Q6 contour. Full dimensions for the ULD containers and pallets in most fleets, and how to read a ULD code.