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Lufthansa sets up e-commerce arm

Lufthansa Cargo has set up a new wholly-owned subsidiary, heyworld, to offer is custom solutions to its e-commerce clients. Based in Frankfurt and with Timo Schamber as managing director will offer a range of configurable transport solutions that can be integrated with customers’ storefronts, ERP systems or shipping software, using the 2,387 daily flights to 31 worldwide destinations operated by Lufthansa and its partner airlines. Lufthansa Cargo head of product and ... [+]

FBJ-FBJNA welcome Lufthansa Cargo’s new B777F

The editors of both Britain’s FBJ and North America’s FBJNA toured the cargo hold of Lufthansa’s brand-new Boeing 777F during a press conference in Frankfurt, Germany, March 18. The aircraft had arrived Frankfurt from Shanghai and was scheduled to fly to Beijing that evening. The aircraft first landed at Frankfurt after ... [+]

No need to feel the heat

Lufthansa Cargo is offering all shippers using its passive refrigeration shipments free reflective film. The product, produced exclusively for the airline, protects shipments against strong sunlight on airport tarmac, even on hot summer days. [+]

Brazilian superstar

Lufthansa Cargo has christened its fourth Boeing 777F 'Olá Brazil' – 'Hello Brazil in Portuguese - to mark its commitment to the South American country with this greeting as well as mark an important occasion in the football calendar. The five brand new Boeing 777Fs names all follow the theme, ... [+]

Roses are green once again

Lufthansa Cargo is filling its freighters with flowers to ensure that millions of red roses will be available on time for Valentine’s Day on 14 February. The airline will fly around 1,000 tonnes of roses from warmer climes to Frankfurt this year. And just in case the love of your life ... [+]

Going green in Germany

Lufthansa Cargo is hosting its third Cargo Climate Care Conference at the Senckenberg Natural History Museum in Frankfurt on 24 April. Around 200 representatives from the logistics business, the political and scientific community are expected to debate air traffic and logistics 'green' issues and speakers will include climate researcher Mojib ... [+]

Back in the black

Lufthansa Cargo returned to profit in 2012 with an operating profit of €104 million, reported chairman and CEO Karl Ulrich Garnadt on 21 March. The carrier is also anticipating a rise in profits in 2013, he added. Demand-driven capacity management was the secret to Lufthansa's success in what is still ... [+]

Brits and Germans sign air charter deal

UK-based Chapman Freeborn Airchartering has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Lufthansa Cargo. The global aircraft charter specialist will handle Lufthansa Cargo’s third-party chartering requirements - allowing the German airline to focus on marketing charter capacity on its own fleet of 18 McDonnell Douglas MD-11F aircraft. Chapman Freeborn’s global network ... [+]

Down Mexico way

Lufthansa Cargo is laying on a new twice-weekly MD-11 freighter service from its Frankfurt hub to Guadalajara in Mexico. The flights are routed via Chicago and Mexico City and will operate on Wednesdays and Saturdays returning – again via the US - on Thursdays and Sundays. Guadalajara has evolved into ... [+]

Roses are red, aircraft are green…

Once again, Lufthansa Cargo is flying millions of red roses on fully-laden freighters to Europe for Valentine’s Day on 14 February. All told in the next few days, the cargo carrier will be shipping around 1,000 tonnes of the traditional lovers’ tokens from Africa and South America to Europe via ... [+]

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