Lufthansa Cargo “lightens“ its fleet of LD3 containers
New generation of LD3 standard containers made from composite materials are reducing fuel consumption and emissions at Lufthansa Cargo
Lufthansa Cargo has replaced all of its LD3 containers by the lightweight versions. The LD3 standard containers made of lighter composite materials are helping to radically reduce fuel consumption and emissions as the cargo airline informs in a press release.
With some 500,000 container movements per year, the difference of about 14 kilograms over conventional containers amounts to a weight saving of 7 million kilograms. Therefore, using these flyweight containers to transport cargo and luggage will reduce fuel consumption by 2,000 tonnes and CO2 emissions by about 7,000 tonnes per year.
“The new, lighter containers are still extremely robust and strong in spite of being almost completely made of plastic”, said Dr Karl-Rudolf Rupprecht, Board Member Operations at Lufthansa Cargo. “Replacing all of our LD3 standard containers brings us a good deal closer to our goal of reducing our specific CO2 emissions by a quarter by 2020 compared to 2005,” he adds.
Lufthansa Cargo ranks among the world’s leading cargo carriers. In the 2013 business year, the airline transported around 1.7 million tonnes of freight and mail and sold 8.7 billion revenue tonne-kilometres. The company focuses on the airport-to-airport business. The cargo carrier serves around 300 destinations in almost 100 countries with its own fleet of freighters, the belly capacities of passenger aircraft operated by Lufthansa and Austrian Airlines, and an extensive road feeder service network.
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