Cargo Carriers
Lufthansa Cargo AG became an autonomous company within the Lufthansa Group on 30 November 1994, reflecting the growing importance of airfreight as a business area in its own right.
With a transport volume of 1.70 million tonnes of freight and mail, 8.28 billion revenue tonne-kilometres and revenues of around 2.91 billion euros in 2008, Lufthansa Cargo ranks among the world’s biggest cargo carriers.
The company currently employs around 4,600 staff worldwide. Lufthansa Cargo’s core competency is the airport-to-airport business.
Fleet and Route Network
Lufthansa Cargo operates a fleet of 19 of its own MD-11F aircraft. The company also markets the belly capacities of all passenger aircraft operated by Deutsche Lufthansa AG and most of the capacities of its german-sino subsidiary Jade Cargo International.The route network encompasses over 300 destinations, which are served by cargo and passenger aircraft as well as by trucking services. The bulk of the airfreight is trans-shipped at the Lufthansa Cargo Center at Frankfurt Airport, the company’s main hub. Its other hubs are Leipzig and Munich.
Products
In 1998, the logistics services provider in the Lufthansa Group converted its business system to time-definite services, or td.Services. The key feature of these services is that customers select the time frame that specifies the latest acceptance time for their shipment and when it will be available at the destination.
Lufthansa Cargo serves three product types with its service portfolio: the general cargo segment td.Pro, the express segment with td.Flash and the Specials. The latter include six further products: Care/td for the transport of dangerous goods, Cool/td for temperature-sensitive goods, Live/td for the transport of live animals, Safe/td 1 for valuable items, Safe/td 2 for theft-endangered goods and finally cd.Solutions for the immediate delivery of consignments – an additional logistics service, which fully complements and augments Lufthansa Cargo’s core airport-to-airport cargo business.
Four of Lufthansa Cargo’s key products are steered in separate “Competence Centers”: “Airmail“, “Animals“, “Temperature Control“ and “Valuables“.
A large part of this range of services can be booked electronically by customers. For this purpose there are four channels at their disposal: eBooking, which can be accessed via the new Lufthansa Cargo customer portal "eServices" at http://eservices.lufthansa-cargo.com or via the company website www.lufthansa-cargo.com, the internet market place Global Freight Exchange (GF-X) and Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) via TRAXON Europe, an integrated process solution which makes it possible for forwarding agents to make bookings directly from their own IT systems. In addition, since the end of 2008, Lufthansa Cargo offers the possibility of processing electronic bookings via Cargo Portal Services (CPS). In the field of electronic booking channels, Lufthansa Cargo is planning further growth rates.
Address
Lufthansa Cargo AGCorporate Communications
Nils Haupt
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Germany
Tel: +49 (69) 696 91123
Fax: +49 (69) 696 98 91123
Email: nils.haupt@dlh.de
URL: www.lufthansa-cargo.com