Lufthansa Cargo presents plans for ‘green airfreight’

Lufthansa Cargo gives a sign of reducing specific emissions; Awards for Hellmann, Gebrüder Weiss and Group 7 AG
 
At its third Climate Care Conference in Frankfurt, Lufthansa Cargo reaffirmed its ambitious plans to reduce sustainably the impact of its activities on the environment. “We are on track with our ambitious aim of reducing specific emissions by a fourth by 2020”, Karl-Rudolf Rupprecht, board member Operations, emphasised on Lufthansa Cargo’s pioneering role in ‘green logistics’ addressing 200 representatives at the conference from logistics business, media, and the scientific community. “In our flight operations alone, we have developed more than 50 measures to curb the fuel burn of our aircraft,” he adds.
 
Dr. Rupprecht is expecting a substantial reduction in specific emissions at Lufthansa Cargo from the coming winter when the first two of five Boeing 777 freighters on its order books are scheduled to enter into service. The most efficient and quiet freighter of its class generates around 20 per cent fewer emissions than the existing MD-11 freighters in the fleet.
 
The Frankfurt conference was also the venue again for the presentation of this year’s Climate Care Awards. Under the motto “More ideas for less emissions”, the cargo carrier confers the environmental awards on company customers and members of the staff for notable contributions to environmental protection.
 
First prize in the customer category went to the Hellmann logistics services company for the successful use of LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) engines in its fleet of vehicles. Other customer awards for environmental commitment went to the Austrian forwarder Gebrüder Weiss GmbH and the Group 7 international logistics company from Munich.
 
In the staff category, Oliver Schatz and Dieter Aulehla from the Lufthansa Cargo logistics centre in Frankfurt took first prize for an innovative application with SmartPads. Their use of the mini-computers in freight handling will save more than 350,000 sheets of paper each year in Frankfurt.

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