First freighter in Panalpina’s corporate design

Boeing 747-8 freighter with Panalpina’s name and logo enters scheduled service within the forwarder’s own controlled air freight network
 
The first of two brand-new Boeing 747-8 freighters enters scheduled service within Panalpina’s own controlled air freight network. The aircraft in Panalpina livery – the first in the company’s history – was handed over to Panalpina on 30 May, on the occasion of a festive out-of-hangar event at Boeing’s manufacturing facility in Everett, Washington.
 
The aircraft named the "Spirit of Panalpina" is being deployed on the Luxembourg-Huntsville route as well as other routes. Panalpina launched this route also known as the "Dixie Jet" as the very first own controlled service in 1990. Within the own controlled air freight network the globally acting forwarder can be particularly responsive to individual requirements, also on short notice.
 
In September 2011, Panalpina and Atlas Air, a leading global provider of outsourced aircraft and aviation operating services, signed a wet-lease agreement for two Boeing 747-8 freighters. They are replacing two previous generation 747-400 freighters and the first of that type to be registered in the USA. The delivery of the second 747-8F is foreseen for later in 2012.
 
The new 747-8F adds further value to Panalpina’s own controlled air freight network. One of the aircraft’s innovative features is that two controlled temperature ranges can be maintained at the same time: One for 2 to 8 degrees Celsius (cold chain) and one for 15 to 25 degrees Celsius (controlled room temperature).
 
Panalpina is by its own account the only freight forwarder with an own controlled network besides regular air freight product offerings and global charter programs. The own controlled network acts as an in-house carrier to the whole Panalpina network. It has been designed to offer capacities and solutions in routings required by customers across various industries that cannot be covered by commercial carriers in the air freight market. Roughly 20% of Panalpina’s global air freight volumes are handled by the own controlled network. The remaining volumes are procured with commercial carriers.

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