Air Canada has extended two outsourcing contracts with Unisys Corporation for hosting & integration services (HIS) and cargo portal services (CPS).

Under the terms of the HIS agreement, lasting until 2015, Unisys will continue to host Air Canada on its Logistics Management System at its data center in Minneapolis. The CPS cargo system, which Air Canada will use until 2011, is an Internet portal for the air cargo industry. The system brings together a range of carriers and forwarders in a neutral portal reducing transaction costs and allowing cross-market competition.

Lise-Marie Turpin, MD of Air Canada Cargo, commented, “Our relationship with Unisys has worked very well for us. As well as providing our enterprise system as a hosted service, we also collaborate on eBooking, Cargo 2000 shipment quality services and integration with specialist third-party software. In today’s tight economic environment, we found value in reviewing and extending our agreements and are confident that Unisys commitment in the ongoing evolution of their products will provide our employees with best of breed solutions for the years to come,”

The contract extensions were both signed in December 2008.