Lufthansa Cargo

• Frankfurt / Main
• Sharjah
• Vienna
• Yemelyanovo
• Hyderabad

Lufthansa Cargo AG is a German cargo airline within the Lufthansa Group, headquartered in Frankfurt am Main and the main hub in Frankfurt am Main airport. The 100-percent subsidiary of Deutsche Lufthansa AG is in 2012, in terms of tonne-kilometers, the sixth-largest cargo airline in the world. Lufthansa Cargo operates a route network of 300 destinations on five continents. In addition to the transport capacity of their freight aircraft types McDonnell Douglas MD -11 and Boeing 777, it markets the additional cargo capacity of more than 300 passenger aircraft (so-called belly capacities ) of the Lufthansa Group and the aircraft from Thomas Cook ( including Condor ) and SunExpress. Cargo flights are LH flight numbers and ICAO code " GEC ", taken from the previous company German Cargo, performed. The call sign is, Lufthansa Cargo ', followed by the flight number.

History

Lufthansa Cargo AG was founded on 30 November 1994 as an independent logistics company within the Lufthansa Group. The former line of business Lufthansa Cargo was thus separated from the passenger airline Lufthansa (Group Internal Lufthansa Passenger Airlines called ) and transferred together with the previously established by Deutsche Lufthansa AG subsidiary German Cargo Services GmbH Lufthansa Cargo AG.

Russian authorities said on October 28, 2007 0:00 clock, apparently of economic interests, an overflight ban against Lufthansa Cargo from. Russia demanded that the German group, its cargo hub from the airport Astana Kazakhstan to the airport Yemelyanovo in Russia's Krasnoyarsk ( Siberia) to lay. Lufthansa flew in 2007, around 50 weekly flights to Astana. The Kazakh capital served as a stopover on the transport route across Asia. For the Frankfurt-Hahn airport ( Rheinland - Pfalz) -use Russian cargo airline Aeroflot - Cargo, was a flight ban in Germany, the ( LBA) was imposed by the German Luftfahrt-Bundesamt, canceled after one day - apparently at the insistence of the Rhineland- Palatinate Minister President Kurt Beck ( SPD). In April 2008, Lufthansa Cargo and the Yemelyanovo airport agreed on future cooperation.

In 2008, 46.7 percent of traffic revenues were generated in the Asia -Pacific region, followed by North America at 24.5 percent, Europe ( 11.9%), South America (8.7% ), Africa ( 6.1%) and Middle East ( 2.1%). In a joint venture between Shenzhen Airlines ( 51%), Lufthansa Cargo AG (25% ) and DEG - German Investment and Development Company (24%) established in the Chinese freight airline Jade Cargo International Company in October 2004. The flight operations began in August 2006. With this investment, Lufthansa Cargo indirect access to the Asian air cargo market has given. In addition, the Lufthansa Cargo AG is involved in the 2004 built " International Cargo Centre Shenzhen ( ICCS ) ".

Together with DHL which went into operation in 2009 Aero Logic was founded at Leipzig / Halle Airport.

In May 2011, Lufthansa Cargo opened a hub for temperature-sensitive cargo at Hyderabad Airport in India. He is to be expanded to major hub for temperature-sensitive pharmaceutical shipments in South Asia. The drugs were to be transported via Frankfurt to the United States.

On February 13, 2013 Karl Ulrich Garnadt signed as CEO of Lufthansa Cargo signed a cooperation agreement with " Germany's Relief Coalition ," an alliance several Hilfsorgansisationen. In the event of a humanitarian or natural disaster Lufthansa Cargo provides fast and economical aircraft available to fly relief supplies and feedstock in the affected regions. This is to be achieved for aid agencies a cost and above all, time advantage. In support of cooperation, the airline has an aircraft equipped with additional labels ( Reg D- ALCC ).

Fleet

As of April 2014, the fleet of 20 aircraft from Lufthansa Cargo is with a mean age of 13.2 years:

• 02 Boeing 777F (delivered 06 /2014, 02/ 2015)

Lufthansa Cargo flies the last ever built MD -11F, with the registration D - ALCN. In 2005, the Lufthansa Cargo looked from her at times up to eight Boeing 747- 200F. By mid-2008, Lufthansa began two MD-11F and a 747- 400F in the wet lease of a World Airways. Due to lower freight rates, these leases were terminated, however.

Mid-2011 was an aircraft of the fleet, the D- ALCC, provided with a special paint finish and the title 100 Years Air Cargo to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the first air freight shipment. While multiple images are applied around the cargo from the history of the airline on the fuselage. Since 13 February 2013 the campaign logo of Germany, the D- ALCC flies Helps.

The first Boeing 777F, registration D - ALFA, floated on November 9, 2013 Everett in Frankfurt. First goals are Atlanta, New York and Chicago. The 777F is 20 % more fuel efficient than the MD -11 and significantly quieter.

Basic Information

(2008 )

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• Freight and / Postal: 1.80 million tonnes ( 2008: 1,695 million tons )
• Available cargo tonne kilometers: 12.560 million ( 2008: 12,584 million)
• Revenue cargo tonne- kilometers: 8.900 million ( 2008: 8,283 million)
• Cargo load factor: 70.9 % (2008: 65.8 %)
• Employees on an annual average: 4,469 (2008: 4,619 )
• CEO Karl Ulrich Garnadt
• Turnover: EUR 2.795 billion (2008: EUR 2.907 billion )
• Operating profit: EUR 310 million ( 2008: EUR 164 million)

The volume of freight transported in 2008 was 6 percent below the previous year. While revenue rose 6.3 percent, the operating profit increased by 20.6 percent.

Services

The core business is the airfreight business, directly from airport to airport.

Lufthansa Cargo is the first transportation company converted its entire product range to time-definite services and made ​​available for booking via the Internet. The two offered services are td.pro as a standard service and td.Flash for express freight.

Air freight hub Frankfurt / Main

Central air cargo hub Lufthansa Cargo is the Frankfurt airport, Europe's second largest cargo airport to Paris Charles de Gaulle. Here, the airport operator Fraport AG and Lufthansa Cargo AG work closely together. Lufthansa Cargo is the primary user of Cargo City North and strives to gain a foothold for some time in the Cargo City South. These Cargo City Süd is especially interesting because the vast majority of international freight forwarders - the air freight main customers - has settled there. These companies provide the networking safely on the land and sea. Differences of opinion between Fraport and Lufthansa Cargo are made for night flight ban. The request for the extension of airport capacity, Fraport felt compelled at the same time an application for night ban on all scheduled flights, so that building remains politically consensus. In contrast, Lufthansa Cargo calls a " practicable night flight regulation ". For this reason, there is interest to move nighttime cargo flights to another airport.

After the release of the new parallel runway 07L/25R in the night of 30 October 2011 and the related ban on night flights 23-5 clock 31, the Lufthansa Cargo relocated its usually at night starting flights to Cologne- Bonn Airport. With the changeover to the summer timetable on 25 March 2012, the flights will be carried out again from Frankfurt and start early enough to no longer be affected by the ban. A report of the logistics professor Richard Vahrenkamp, after which a shift of the entire air freight Lufthansa to Frankfurt-Hahn Airport in the Hunsrück would be possible Lufthansa Cargo contradicted the beginning of December 2011.

Air cargo alliance

Lufthansa Cargo was a founding member of the first strategic alliance of air freight companies WOW. The alliance also belong to Singapore Airlines Cargo, SAS Cargo and JAL Cargo. For similar reasons as in the Star Alliance, the MD -11F D- ALCE Lufthansa Cargo AG flew by mid-2008, the WOW look to advertise worldwide for these logistics alliance. On all other machines have only different colored stickers to go on the membership of the WOW. At the end of 2007, the Company has decided that the previously stated to the business papers ( letterheads, business cards, etc. ) is carried WOW logo dropped in the future. In spring 2008, explained CEO Carsten Spohr, that the air cargo alliance had become largely redundant due to the own dense route network. Accordingly, the WOW Alliance will no longer be actively promoted and the lettering removed as part of the scheduled maintenance of the aircraft.

In April 2011, Lufthansa Cargo announced that a new cargo pact to be established along the lines of Star Alliance. The cargo capacity of Austrian Airlines since 2010 integrated into the site of Lufthansa Cargo.

Operational investments

1 The shops of cargo counts have been completely taken over by Lufthansa Cargo in early 2009, the company resolved it.

Accidents and incidents

Lufthansa Cargo recorded in its history an incident with aircraft loss, an accident, but so far no fatalities:

On 27 July 2010, at 11:38 local time clock crashed an MD -11F Lufthansa Cargo with the registration D - ALCQ on their flight from Frankfurt to Hong Kong GEC 8460 during a stopover on the King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh ( Saudi Arabia). The aircraft touched down at an excessive rate of descent on, broke in two, went off the runway and burned out. The two pilots survived. The final report of the Saudi aviation authority identifies one of the main reasons that the co-pilot, who was steering the machine, it should be flown with a high rate of descent, and this error was not corrected by the master. Thus, the rate of descent has about 800 instead of the usual amount to 120 ft / min, also the crew failed to follow the procedure laid down in this case to keep the angle of attack and increase thrust; Instead, the captain pushed the control column forward and thus the rate of descent still further strengthened. After the second touchdown with 4.4 g of the structure gave way and the plane came in the course of landing to the left of the path from where the plane burned and had to be written off.

On November 24, 2013 touched off from Dakar, Senegal upcoming MD -11 with the registration D - ALCE Lufthansa Cargo flight number GEC 8258 upon landing at the airport Viracopos at Sao Paulo in Brazil with the rear of the runway (so-called tailstrike ), followed by the occupation started, and then safely landed on the Viracopos airport. The incident is currently under investigation (March 2014). In the incident, the aircraft was damaged, the injured did not exist.