Miami International Airport just unveiled a new digital platform designed to untangle the daily crush of 190 cargo flights and more than 1,600 truck trips that keep the nation's busiest freight airport running. The Airport Cargo Community System, built with Mumbai-area logistics firm Kalé Logistics Solutions, creates a shared online portal meant to give freight forwarders, cargo handlers, truckers, carriers and ground handlers a common view of what's moving through MIA and when.
The launch was announced on Tuesday at The International Air Cargo Association's Air Cargo Forum in Miami, according to Miami International Airport. The announcement comes as the airport reported handling a record 3.4 million U.S. tons of freight in 2025, making it the busiest freight airport in the country and the third busiest in the world. As the Miami Herald first reported, the system is intended to improve information sharing, advance planning and truck scheduling across MIA's sprawling cargo network.
Before the ACCS, freight stakeholders at MIA exchanged information manually and in a fragmented way, even though many individual cargo firms already run automated internal systems of their own — they just had no shared way to talk to each other's platforms. Cargo trucks arriving at the airport often have limited information about departure times and cargo type, a gap that can increase congestion, carbon emissions and inefficiencies, according to Air Cargo News.
A Record Year for Freight at MIA
MIA's cargo totals have been climbing, though exactly how fast depends on who's counting. The airport itself says its record 3.4 million tons of 2025 airfreight marked a 13.2% increase over 2024, per the same airport account. Air Cargo News, citing Airports Council International figures, reported a 13.6% year-over-year increase to 3.1 million tonnes last year, while FreightWaves put the 2025 jump at 9.4% over 2024, according to its report on the shared logistics platform.
The airport also noted that in 2025, its in-transit freight surpassed origin-and-destination freight for the first time in more than a decade, splitting 55% to 45%. Globally, MIA ranks behind only Hong Kong and Shanghai for cargo volume, the Miami Herald reported.
What the New System Is Supposed to Fix
Kalé Logistics co-founder and CEO Amar More told the Miami Herald the new platform will improve cargo planning and scheduling and called it the world's first AI-based airport cargo system in an interview with the paper. The company has installed an older version of the platform at roughly 40 airports worldwide, according to the same interview, and Kalé was founded in 2009 in Thane, India, near Mumbai.
MIA says it plans to begin rolling out the technology in January 2027, with full launch expected by August or September of that year, per the Miami Herald's reporting. Once running, the system is meant to give supply-chain partners greater visibility into what's arriving, from where, when and for how long — with truckers eventually able to see which products are arriving on each plane and book a shorter airport time slot instead of waiting all morning, according to the Herald. Those capabilities describe the system's intended function rather than results already measured at MIA.
If adopted across MIA's entire cargo operation, the airport estimates the system could save 5,900 U.S. tons of carbon dioxide emissions, 3,000 trees and up to $250 million in annual operational costs, according to Miami International Airport. Those projections assume modest savings of 15% in paper handling and an average two-hour reduction in truck turnaround time, per the airport's cargo development page.
Flowers, Fish and the Colombia-Ecuador Pipeline
The stakes are especially high for Miami's role as the country's flower gateway. MIA says it receives 91% of all U.S. flower imports arriving by air, according to the airport's own account, though U.S. flower imports by air are reported elsewhere to arrive more than 90% through MIA, per the Miami Herald. Colombia and Ecuador account for approximately 86% of all flowers imported to the U.S. by air, the airport says, and MIA plans to use the new cargo network to develop more direct international channels with both countries, according to the Herald's reporting. LATAM and Avianca both operate major freight businesses at the airport, the Herald noted.
Around Valentine's Day, MIA has projected more than 1,500 tons of cut flowers arriving daily between January 1 and the end of February — a 3% increase over its record 2024 peak season, per the airport. Avianca Cargo has separately reported a 40% improvement in flower processing time and nearly a 50% reduction in delivery times tied to its MIA flower operation, according to Airways Magazine.
A Playbook Tested at JFK
Kalé's truck-slot and dock-management technology isn't new to U.S. airports. The company piloted a similar system with Worldwide Flight Services at JFK beginning in December 2021, enrolling about 50 organizations and more than 160 individual users, according to Kalé Logistics. That pilot reduced truck wait times by up to 66% for exports and 48% for imports, the company reported. Kalé's systems are also currently operating at airports in Atlanta and Boston and at the Worldwide Flight Services facility at JFK, according to FreightWaves.
Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said the partnership makes MIA more future-ready, according to the Herald's reporting, and said it includes simplifying and expediting goods movement, supporting trade-dependent businesses and jobs, and maintaining the airport's efficiency and sustainability leadership. The county, MIA and Kalé revealed the partnership together at the Miami Beach Convention Center forum, the Herald reported.
