100-years jubilee of global air freight business
Website www.100-jahre-luftfracht.de shows reports and pictures from 100 years of air freight history
These days the global air freight industry celebrates its 100-years jubilee. Freight was transported by aircraft in the US for the first time on 7 November 1910. From Dayton, Ohio ten bales of silk flew the about 100 kilometres route to Columbus on board of the model B-aircraft of Gebrüder Wright. Nine months later the air cargo arrived in Germany. On 19 August 1911 papers – Berliner Morgenpost – were transported on board an aircraft from Berlin Johannisthal to Frankfurt/Oder. In the past decades the air cargo industry has become the motor of the global economy. International division of work and global business networking would have been inconceivable without air freight, Lufthansa Cargo CEO Carsten Spohr pointed out. However, air freight does not only connect economic and industrial centres, says Spohr. “Air freight is particularly connecting people. The Berlin Airlift in 1948/49 or supply flights to Haiti and Pakistan this year are outrageous examples that show the power and importance of air freight." Air freight is also significant people’s every day life. Urgentlich needed drugs or perishable food can only reach their recipients securely and in due time with the fastest of all transport means – the aircraft. „Apart from looking back on the air freight history of the German Lufthansa, in the coming months we want to look at the development of the complete business branch as well", Spohr emphasises. The website www.100-jahre-luftfracht.de was a therefore set up portal that shows many pictures and reports from 100 years of air freight history. This site is operated by Lufthansa Cargo together with its partners Fraport AG, DVZ – Deutsche Logistik-Zeitung and the Air Cargo Club Deutschland. Quelle: LogEastics |