Lufthansa Cargo provides for a sea of flowers all over Europe
Fast air cargo transport: Lufthansa Cargo carries about 1,000 tonnes of roses to Europe at Valentine’s Day
This year Lufthansa Cargo is once again facing the challenges of transporting particularly sensitive flowers from growing areas in Africa and South America to Europe. Fully-laden freighters are flying the flowers to Europe in time for sale on Valentine’s Day on 14 February. All told the cargo carrier was shipping around 1,000 tonnes of roses from climatically hot flower-growing countries to Frankfurt.
The airline’s sophisticated logistics with cooling systems in the cargo hold and, not least, the expertise of the growers in the exporting countries, ensure that the roses arrive fresh and crispy at their destination. Immediately after they are harvested by the growers, the flowers are dispatched on the fastest route to be packaged and loaded straight into the holds of the cargo airline’s freighters.
The major countries exporting roses are Kenya, Colombia and Ecuador – with the capital Quito, known as the City of Eternal Spring. Lufthansa Cargo serves all three of the exporting nations with several freighter services weekly from its Frankfurt hub. For Valentine’s Day, normal frequencies on the route will be upped by several extra flights in order to accommodate huge demand.
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