Lufthansa Cargo’s Frankfurt Animal Lounge turns 10

Lufthansa Cargo’s Frankfurt Animal Lounge has celebrated its 10th anniversary with a ceremony with partners and customers at the Opel Zoo. The animal lounge combines all areas including handling, animal coordination and veterinary services under one roof, with 50 employees and qualified animal caretakers working around the clock at the 4,000 m2 facility. During the […]

Lufthansa Cargo handles first electronic Dangerous Goods Declaration

Lufthansa Cargo has handled the first dangerous goods shipment with an electronic Dangerous Goods Declaration (eDGD) at Frankfurt Airport using the INFr8 platform. The German airline made a significant contribution to the establishment of the global eDGD standard as part of IATA’s e-freight initiative. A completely new approach was developed and evaluated through close collaboration […]

Quintiq to help Lufthansa Cargo improve production planning

Lufthansa Cargo has selected Quintiq to improve production planning at its hubs in Frankfurt and Munich, with additional stations following in the future. The Quintiq solution is able to generate a production plan seven days in advance, based on forecasted orders and closer to the day of operations the solution will start to fill the […]

Lufthansa offers reflective film on all passive refrigerated shipments

Lufthansa Cargo is continuing to upgrade its cool chain services by protecting every passive refrigerated shipment with a reflective film without any additional fees. The reflective film produced exclusively for Lufthansa Cargo provides sensitive shipments with optimum protection against unavoidable sunlight on airport tarmacs around the world, even on hot summer days. Lufthansa Cargo board […]

Lufthansa Cargo loads 100,000th tonne via Fraport Speed Gate

Lufthansa Cargo has loaded the 100,000th tonne of cargo via Fraport’s Speed Gate at Frankfurt Airport CargoCity South. Cargo is unloaded at four automated gates at the press of a button, security checked with the gates and brought directly to the aircraft. Fraport opened Speed Gate almost four years ago, and it was mainly aimed […]

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, […]