Lufthansa Cargo celebrates its 20th anniversary

Deutsche Lufthansa’s cargo subsidiary is well-prepared for the future with its strategy programme “Lufthansa Cargo 2020”

Lufthansa Cargo, the German cargo airline, turns 20. On 30 November 1994 Deutsche Lufthansa AG pooled its cargo activities in a separate company. Creating an independent stock company increased the significance of its cargo activities dramatically. Also the cargo flights formerly performed first by German Cargo and later by Lufthansa Cargo Airlines GmbH became a major pillar of the business of Deutsche Lufthansa’s cargo subsidiary.

“The foundation of Lufthansa Cargo as an independent company in the 1990s paved the way to a hitherto unheard-of professionalization of airfreight”, points out Peter Gerber, the current CEO of Lufthansa Cargo. “Cargo went from by-product to core business that now accounts for almost ten per cent of sales of the Lufthansa Group.”

A few weeks after its official foundation Lufthansa Cargo started operating with a fleet of five McDonnell Douglas DC8 freighters, ten Boeing 747-200Fs and two Boeing 737 freighters in January 1995. 20 years later Lufthansa Cargo flies both with MD-11F and brand-new B777 freighters with a maximum payload of 103 tonnes. Lufthansa Cargo is also a digital pioneer of the business. The cargo airline invests in cutting-edge IT and is pushing its goal of being digitally networked with all players of the logistics chain from booking to delivery by 2020.

Lufthansa Cargo is well-prepared for the future with its strategy programme “Lufthansa Cargo 2020”. “We are shaping up Lufthansa Cargo for the future with the largest investment programme in our company’s history”, Peter Gerber underlines the significance of the strategy.

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