Lufthansa Cargo AG - Cargo Carriers

Company Lufthansa Cargo AG
Date 19.11.2009

The Executive Board of Lufthansa Cargo has decided on a variety of changes in top management.  The new appointments become effective on 1 February 2010. 

A new division named ”Product Management“ is to be established. It will consist of the following departments: “Product Management Standard & Express“ as well as the ”Airmail“, ”TempControl“, “Animals“ and ”Valuables“ competence centers. The new division will be headed by Martin Schlingensiepen (57), previously Area Manager Asia Pacific, who will report direct to Board Member Product and Sales Dr. Andreas Otto.

Martin Schlingensiepen will be succeeded as Area Manager Asia Pacific by Helge Krüger-Lorenzen (43), based in Singapore. The latter is currently in charge of the “Global Sales Steering“ division which will in future also be responsible for network issues. Stefan Wieners (45), up to now in charge of Road Feeder Services, will take over as head of ”Global Network and Sales Steering“ division, with effect from 1 April 2010.

Additionally, Bernhard Kindelbacher (47) has been appointed as the new head of ”Strategy, Subsidiaries & Business Development“.  He succeeds Wolfgang Schmitz, who is retiring on 31 December 2009. Bernhard Kindelbacher was latterly in charge of the “Network & Product Management“ division which will in future be disbanded.

Lufthansa Cargo AG
Lufthansa Cargo ranks among the world’s leading cargo carriers. In the 2008 financial year, the airline transported around 1.7 million tonnes of freight and mail and clocked up 8.3 billion revenue tonne-kilometres. The Company currently employs about 4,600 people, worldwide. Lufthansa Cargo focuses on the airport-to-airport business. The cargo carrier serves some 300 destinations in 90 countries with its own fleet of freighters, the belly capacities of Lufthansa’s passenger aircraft and an extensive road services network.  Lufthansa Cargo is a wholly-owned Lufthansa subsidiary. In the 2008 financial year, it posted revenues totalling 2.9 billion euros. 

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