Air Cargo India: Lufthansa Cargo eyeing Indian network development

Lufthansa Cargo is eyeing up adding a new freighter frequency into Delhi to reap the rewards of the growing market by adding to the once a week service it now operates. Speaking at a media briefing at Air Cargo India in Mumbai yesterday, the German carrier’s board member for product and sales Alexis von Hoensbroech, […]

Logwin expands Air + Ocean to Mannheim

Logwin has opened its nineteenth Air + Ocean office in Germany in Mannheim, following the opening of Erfurt and Leipzig facilities in 2015. It already had a contract logistics office in Mannheim, and the Air + Ocean expansion will serve consumer and chemical industry customers through a 20,000 square metre multi-user warehouse and high rack […]

AirBridgeCargo starts African services

AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) has started twice weekly Boeing 747 Freighter services to Africa, starting in the UK, then onto Germany, before flying to Gabon and South Africa, returning via Kenya. The first service flew on 14 February and will operate on Thursdays and Sundays under an aircraft, crew, maintenance and insurance (ACMI) contract with CargoLogicAir […]

Airborne International appointed Finnair’s GSSA for Germany

Finnair Cargo has appointed Airborne International as its general sales and service agent (GSSA) for Germany from 1 March. Airborne International, based at Frankfurt Airport’s Cargo City South will take over from Aero Cargo International, which will remain Finnair’s German GSSA until 29 February. This announcement follows from 2015, when it appointed three new GSSAs. […]

60 Seconds with Hans-Georg Emmert

One of the first changes at Fraport Cargo Services (FCS) after it was taken over by Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) was the appointment of Hans-Georg Emmert as managing director. Emmert was promoted from head of sales and marketing and took over on 1 December. He spoke to Air Cargo Week about how he sees the industry […]

Frankfurt sees small dip in January

Frankfurt Airport has seen cargo volumes dip by 0.1 per cent to 159,650 tonnes in January, while other Fraport operated airports have generally seen positive results during the month. At its other airports, Ljubljana Joze Pucnik International Airport saw a 6.4 per cent rise in January to 751 tonnes, with Lima’s Jorge Chavez International Airport […]

Germany’s Airport Association expects 1.7% cargo growth in 2016

The German Airports Association (ADV) says cargo was stagnant across Germany in 2015, despite positive economic fundamentals, and forecasts airfreight will grow by 1.7 per cent in 2016. Germany – Europe’s air cargo powerhouse – saw cargo volume decline slightly by 0.1 per cent, ADV reports, and gateways across Germany handled a total of 4,438,589 tonnes. ADV’s […]

LUG continues to adapt in changing times

2016 is a big year for LUG aircargo handling, which today handles cargo at both Frankfurt and Munich airports, as it celebrates its 50th anniversary later this year. The cargo handler’s business has grown  over the decades, while the industry changed over that period, and handlers such as LUG had to adapt accordingly. Not all […]

Jettainer targets more contracts in 2016

Jettainer had a prolific 2015 and the unit load device (ULD) management firm has lofty ambitions this year. The subsidiary of the Lufthansa Group signed up a further five new airlines last year, taking its total to 18 and says it won every tender it took part in. Jettainer’s managing director, Carsten Hernig says the […]

Munich Airport sees 8.9% tonnage rise in 2015

Munich Airport saw a strong growth in airfreight in 2015 with tonnage up 8.9 per cent to more than 317,000 tonnes, which is a new annual record for the gateway. This compares with the 291,475 tonnes that the airport handled in 2014. Munich Airport president and chief executive officer, Dr. Michael Kerkloh reiterated the need […]

Tonnage record in 2015 for Leipzig

Leipzig Halle Airport set a tonnage record for the 11th consecutive year in 2015, handling 988,240 tonnes of cargo. Operator Mitteldeutsche Flughafen says that this was a growth rate of 8.5 per cent compared to the tonnage figure achieved 2014. In December, the airport handled 89,857 tonnes and the gateway says this was a new record […]

Etihad welcomes codeshare flights court ruling

Etihad Airways has welcomed the ruling by the higher administrative court in Luneburg reversing an earlier judgment and allowing it to continue operating 26 out of the 31 codeshare flights for the full winter schedule, which ends on 26 March 2016. The carrier says the court definitively ruled that 26 of the 31 codeshares are lawful. Together […]

Fall of 2.3% in volumes at Frankfurt Airport

Frankfurt Airport’s volumes fell 2.3 per cent in 2015 to about 2.1 million tonnes, which it attributes to mainly to weakening global trade and economic difficulties in some emerging markets. In the last month of 2015 in December, cargo throughput dropped by 0.5 per cent to 175,296 tones year-on-year. The operator of Germany’s principal hub, […]

Lufthansa Cargo sees volumes fall in 2015

Lufthansa Cargo carried 1.6 million tonnes of freight in 2015, which was a slight year-on-year decline in volumes on 2014, but it says customer satisfaction levels remain high. The carrier says the total volume declined slightly in a “challenging market environment” and the company had carried around two per cent more freight the previous year. […]

Etihad appeals ‘protectionist’ German codeshare ban decision

Etihad Airways and airberlin are appealing the German government decision to reject 29 codeshares, accusing it of caving into protectionist tactics and lobbying from Lufthansa. The Administrative Court of Braunschweig agreed the German Ministry of Transport was entitled to reject the codeshares. A notice of appeal has been filed in the higher administrative court in […]

Competition high but pharma and automotives strong

Lufthansa Cargo is seeing strong performance out of Germany in pharmaceuticals and automotives, but continues to battle competition from additional bellyhold capacity from Middle Eastern and Turkish carriers. The carrier’s vice president for area management in Germany, Florian Pfaff tells Air Cargo Week business has been driven by pharma and car business, while specialist product […]

Cattle transported from Leipzig to Kuwait

A shipment of 165 cattle was transported from Leipzig Halle Airport to Kuwait using an AirBridgeCargo Airlines Boeing 747-8 Freighter. The animals, from the German state of Saxony-Anhalt, were transferred from trucks to transport boxes at the airport’s Animal Export Center, a 1,300 square metre facility that has been operating since 2010. The handling was […]

Stark to succeed Rupprecht as Lufthansa Cargo operations board member

Soren Stark is to become the Lufthansa Cargo executive board member for operations from 1 April 2016, taking over from Dr Karl-Rudolf Rupprecht, who is retiring. Stark, who is senior vice president aircraft base maintenance, will be responsible for handling in Frankfurt, Munich and the Lufthansa Cargo Service Center, as well as global handling management, […]

Jettainer starts ULD management for Thomas Cook Group Airlines

Jettainer has expanded its cooperation with Thomas Cook Group Airlines and will now manage all the carrier’s unit load devices. The German ULD outsource company, a subsidiary of the Lufthansa Group, will now maintain all the containers and pallets for the airline as the new contract not only covers Condor, which has been a customer since 2006, but also […]

Frankfurt volumes fall again in November

Frankfurt Airport saw cargo volumes fall by 3.6 per cent in November to 195,505 tonnes, during the month when Lufthansa strikes caused major disruption. In November, Lufthansa’s flight attendants went on strike, causing a week-long walk out. This resulted in 3,400 scheduled flights being cancelled. Between January and November, Frankfurt Airport has seen cargo volumes […]

Antonov 225 takes-off from Leipzig

Leipzig/Halle Airport welcomed an Antonov 225 aircraft on Friday (December 11) which was transporting 185 tonnes of machinery to China. This is was the 18th visit by the world’s largest aircraft, which is the only one of its class and it was loaded with about 185 tonnes of machine elements following its landing. The work was […]

United Lufthansa cooperation planned

Lufthansa and United Airlines plan to enhance their cooperation to include cargo operations on routes between the US and Europe. The airlines are discussing the cooperation to create a more efficient and comprehensive transatlantic network with more choice for cargo customers. They are discussing possible elements of cooperation including information technology services and facilities. The cooperation […]

Lufthansa and ANA expand partnership in Japan

Lufthansa Cargo and All Nippon Airways (ANA) Cargo have expanded their joint network in Japan by adding services – just as the carriers celebrate one year since their partnership kicked-off. As of today, 1 December they have started servicing industrial metropolis Fukuoka, on the southern Japanese island of Kyushu. This Japan to Europe service will […]

New managing director at FCS

Fraport Cargo Services (FCS) has appointed Hans-Georg Emmert as its new managing director (MD). This moves comes after the completion of the planned strategic partnership between Fraport AG and Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) on 2 November 2, 2015. The appointment became effective today (1 December). FCS says this decision WFS emphasises its general policy to […]

Lufthansa signs agreement over ground personnel pay

Lufthansa has signed an agreement with services union ver.di on pay for about 30,000 ground personnel. Lufthansa has agreed a pay increase for its ground personnel and for staff at Lufthansa-Systems, Lufthansa-Service, Lufthansa Technik and Lufthansa Cargo of 2.2 per cent on 1 January, 2016. There will be a one-off payment of €2,250 euros ($2,380) […]

Air Charter Service moves into new Frankfurt office

Air Charter Service (ACS) is expanding its operations in Germany by moving into a new office in Frankfurt closer to the city centre. The charter company says the new office has about double the floor space. ACS says the move will help it better serve clients as well as providing further room to grow its […]

Jettainer completes repair certificate process

Jettainer has completed the certification process of its repair partners for its unit load devices (ULD) round the globe. The ULD outsource management firm, a subsidiary of the Lufthansa Group, says all the companies that form the flexible repair network of the ULD specialist have provided evidence of conforming to Jettainer’s quality guidelines in terms […]

IATA e-AWB end of year target likely to be missed

Electronic air waybill (e-AWB) penetration has risen to 35.1 per cent in October, an improvement on September but reaching the end of year target of 45 per cent is unlikely. Penetration increased by 0.9 per cent over September, according to the International Air Transport Association, but this is a slowdown compared to previous months, which […]

Lufthansa Cargo freighter livery designed in support of aid organisation

A Lufthansa Cargo freighter is from now on flying around the world with the footprints of 24 children on its fuselage. The carrier has turned the MD-11F registered “D-ALCH” into a flying ambassador for the aid organisation Cargo Human Care. The colourful design was presented today at Nairobi International Airport. It symbolises the motto “Step by […]

New members join Air Cargo Community Frankfurt

The Air Cargo Community Frankfurt continues to grow after Georgi Transporte and Menian joined the trade association at Frankfurt Airport. As a result, the number of members has grown to 35, representing all the areas of the air cargo transport chain and contribute their interests and their expertise to the Community’s various competence teams. Together […]