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The Lufthansa board has approved an order for two more Boeing 777F freighter aircraft, due to be delivered in February and March 2019from the plane-maker’s Seattle plant. Described by Lufthansa Cargo chief executive Peter Gerber as “a visible sign of our modernization strategy", the new aircraft have emissions almost 20% lower than existing MD-11 freighters, and are significantly quieter, says the carrier.
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Dorothea von Boxberg is to become chief commercial officer) at Lufthansa Cargo, subject to board approval. She takes over from Alexis von Hoensbroech, who is to become the new chairman of Austrian Airlines.
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Lufthansa Cargo will market the cargo capacities of Brussels Airlines from 1 September. Customers of both airlines will have access to either carrier’s network. Brussels Airlines operates to 17 African destinations including Dakar, Monrovia, Abidjan, Douala, Kinshasa and Entebbe. The cargo capacities of Lufthansa, Austrian Airlines, Eurowings and SunExpress are ...
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The recovery in the airfreight market took Lufthansa Cargo by surprise, along with the rest of the industry, said chief executive Peter Gerber. Presenting the German carrier’s annual results at a press conference on 22 March, he said that a loss of €50 million in 2016 had been turned around ...
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Lufthansa Cargo has started the proof of concept phase of a project to manage the IATA Dangerous Goods Declaration (DGD) electronically.
The aim is for shippers, forwarders and carriers to manage transport of such cargoes without paper documentation and follows the creation of an electronic DGD standard in early 2017 by ...
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Lufthansa Cargo is offering direct access to capacity and rate data though its ‘GetCapacity’ and ‘GetRates’ APIs (application programming interfaces). Companies can use the in their own system and process it further without having to manually upload it. They complement the established ‘Tracking’ and ‘GetRoutes’ interfaces, but the new APIs ...
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Lufthansa’s time:matters high speed logistics arm is to add the US and Mexico to its Sameday Air network with 16 stations – 15 of them in the US and one in Mexico as part of its internationalisation programme. The Sameday Air network already includes 100 stations and more than 21 ...
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Lufthansa Group’s high speed freight specialist arm time:matters has been awarded ISO 14001 environmental management joining its parent, which has already been ISO certified since 2008. In March of this year time:matters will begin trialling electric vehicles at Frankfurt Airport.
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Lufthansa Cargo and its partner Aircargo Consulting have developed a new process to allow larger vehicles to be carried in the bellyholds of passenger planes operated by its Eurowings subsidiary. While cars that fit on an aircraft pallet can be loaded into passenger planes, larger vehicles have until now had ...
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Lufthansa Cargo has added two weekly freighters to Osaka, Japan, complementing its existing daily freighter to Tokyo-Narita as well as the Lufthansa passenger flights to Osaka-Kansai, Tokyo-Haneda, and Nagoya. The new route is operated from Frankfurt via Novosibirsk to Osaka on Wednesdays and Fridays.
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