Inspite of the prevailing gloom encompassing the air cargo current market, Lufthansa Cargo carries on to extend its intra-European network with far more flights to and from its Frankfurt Airport hub.
CEO Ashwin Bhat has recurring the company’s goal –“to establish a European very same-day and e-commerce community, and therefore establish Lufthansa Cargo as the leading European cargo airline and service companion in the market.”
He extra: “Complementing our B777F and belly capacity, we can now present even shorter transport moments in European and to selected medium-haul places.”
Lufthansa Cargo put its third A321 freighter into assistance at the close of June and a fourth will join the fleet future thirty day period. The provider presents additional than 50 weekly flights on a routine that consists of giving Istanbul, Birmingham, Dublin, Tel Aviv, Cairo, Malta, Milan, Larnaca, Athens, Copenhagen, Algiers, Madrid, Casablanca, Algiers, Tunis and Erevan (Armenia) with a direct link to its Frankfurt hub.
“Our destinations are regularly staying optimised,” spokesperson for Lufthansa Cargo instructed The Loadstar, and further adjustments and extensions to the quick- and medium-haul route community, involved with the A321 fleet growth, are prepared.
“While e-commerce and same-day are appropriate segments in this current market, they are complemented by standard airfreight items these types of as spare areas, prescription drugs and significant-tech equipment – partly feeder shipments for very long-haul and partly intra-European cargo,” the spokesperson explained.
An A321F flight carrying Scandinavia-origin fresh fish and connecting with a Lufthansa B777 freighter or passenger plane leaving Frankfurt for extended-haul locations is just one case in point of the carrier’s transit cargo principle.
It claimed expanding its intra-European route network went hand in hand with Lufthansa Cargo’s options to create Frankfurt Airport as a main e-commerce hub by means of two of its subsidiaries – logistics services provider heyworld and customs clearance company CB Customs Broker.
“We want to make Frankfurt a main location in this segment by presenting holistic solutions for shipping and delivery, customs clearance, and onward transport of eCommerce shipments,” mentioned Mr Bhat.
Meanwhile, CB Customs Broker has declared a partnership with Georgi Dealing with to generate a new e-commerce terminal at Frankfurt Airport’s Cargo Town South.
