Northern Capital Gateway (managing Pulkovo Airport)  and  the IBS Group have signed a strategic partnership agreement in the field of digital transformation. The parties will join forces in import substitution and the creation of domestic ERP solutions.

The agreement was signed within the framework of the II International Forum of Digital Technologies in Transport and Logistics “Digital Transportation – 2024”.

Pulkovo was recognized as an innovation leader in the aviation industry according to the NAIS awards in 2024. In 2023, the airport served 20.4 million passengers, becoming the second busiest in the country and the only airport with an annual passenger traffic of over 15 million people, exceeding the 2019 figures. Since 2010, Pulkovo's main operator has been Northern Capital Gateway, which, on the basis of a public-private partnership, manages the airport and its reconstruction and development project.

IBS and Pulkovo Airport plan to cooperate in the following areas:

• ensuring import substitution and digital sovereignty in the air transport industry; 
• accelerating the implementation of Russian digital solutions; 
• implementation of projects of the industry strategy for digital transformation and fulfillment of adopted plans for digital transformation;
• development of methodologies and approaches to replicating successful practices of import substitution, implementation of AI and digital technologies in the air transport industry; 
• increasing the commercial efficiency and safety of passenger and freight transportation;
• increasing the flexibility of operational management systems and ensuring the growth of digital culture.

"Northern Capital Gateway, the operator of Pulkovo Airport, is in the active phase of import substitution of the ERP system in partnership with IBS. This cooperation is aimed not only at ensuring the operation of a large aviation enterprise, but also at additional optimization of processes. The replacement of previously used solutions actually gave impetus to launch the automation of a number of tasks. At the same time, the integration project is being implemented in a short time frame - 1 year, and our partner maintains the set pace and volume of work," noted  Olga Korochkina, Chief Financial Officer of Northern Capital Gateway LLC.

"Pulkovo Airport is one of the largest and fastest growing air transport hubs in Russia. Our joint work allows us to offer solutions today that can change the quality of life of people and help ensure the territorial unity of Russia, increase the commercial efficiency and safety of passenger and cargo transportation. The specialized teams of IBS will share their accumulated expertise and experience in implementing import substitution programs in transport and logistics. We are proud that together we will make efforts to achieve technological independence of the air transport industry ," comments Dmitry Vasiliev, Director of Strategic Programs at IBS.

The main areas of innovative development of IBS Group in the transport and logistics industry of the Russian Federation are: development of technologies for weight and dimension control of freight transport during movement and a system for monitoring the physical condition of the driver, control of speed parameters and route of movement, monitoring of electronic tags, cargo tracing, end-to-end multimodal logistics system, electronic marking of cargo, door-to-door tracing, a social platform for long-distance travel (interest clubs, customer analytics) and other technologies.