trade route “More than one third of these
Europe-generated volumes are flown out of Germany,with customers in China being by far the biggest consignees,”Steiger said. “Ourwarehouse has been
bursting forweeks,”states Hans- Georg Emmert, head of sales and marketing at Frankfurt-based ground handling agent Fraport Cargo Services. “I’mnot talking about imports fromChina alone, but exports aswell,”he pointed out. Describing theworking conditions his forklift drivers have to copewith Emmert said Fraport’s 47,000 squaremetre cargo hall at Frankfurt-Main airport is so full “that our people have to carefully zigzag through themasses of incoming and outgoing shipments to avoid running into the boxes or packages”. Themajority of goods handled by the company, a
Emmert: “our warehouse has been bursting forweeks”
subsidiary of Frankfurt-Main airport operator Fraport, are arriving and departing the gateway on flights operated by the handler’smain airline customer, Air China. The carrier offers themarket eightweekly B747-400F roundtrips between Beijing and Frankfurt,with seven of these flights originating and ending in Shanghai. In an expansion planned to run through to September, Air China intends to increase the number of full-freighter flights gradually to 14 times aweek. Fraport Cargo Services indicates that these flights by that time maywell be under the branding of the newly-formed Air
China Cargo, the Shanghai-based joint venture of Air China (51 percent) and Cathay Pacific (49 percent). Cathay also operates B747-400 freighters between Hong Kong and Frankfurt. Consequently, there is going to be plenty of
moreworkwaiting for Emmert and his colleagues. The dominant carrier at Frankfurt-Main airport remains
home-based Lufthansa Cargo, offering 21weekly roundtrips between Germany and China bymainly deploying its 17 ownMD-11 freighters or the two B777Fs of AeroLogic, a 50/50 joint venture established last year between Lufthansa Cargo and DHL Express. The Chinese destinations served are Shanghai, Guangzhou and Hong Kong. In April, the German flag-carrier increased the number of self-operated Shanghai frequencies fromseven to eight flights eachweek.
C-AIR OPTION In addition, Lufthansa Cargo has a co-loading agreement with Air China on routes between Shanghai and Beijing to Frankfurt. The German airline further orchestrates a total of 18 B747-400F flights everymonth operated by Chinese minority partner (25 percent) Jade Cargo, fromits base at Shenzhen Baoan International airport to Frankfurt-Main and back to China. Furthermore the German cargo heavyweight and Jade also offer shippers the option of the combined air-sea carriage of goods fromEurope to a number of Australian destinations. Thismutually co- ordinated transportation service,which commenced a year ago, seems to fill amarket niche. The concept involves the
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