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fromJune. The newconnectionwill be our first non-stop route into China for three years. Cargo capacitywill be around 10 tonnes per flight.” With somany othermajor European cargo hubswithin


a fewhours by road,Hulsman acknowledged that “competition for the region’s burgeoning economic rewards is extremely fierce”. ButDüsseldorf’s position at the traditional heartland of


Germany’s industrial andmanufacturing output,with new destinations and greater frequencies being added,makes the airport a cost-efficient hub for exporters fromthe North and Central regions of Germany.


FLYINGTHE FLAG Despite the fact that the federal court ruling onwhether Frankfurt-Main can continue to operate night flights is yet to be given, Germany’s flag-carrier –which has one of its twomain hubs at Frankfurt (the other being atMunich) – is also in joyfulmood. Lufthansa Cargo’s 2010 freight figures give the reasonwhy: last year, it flewa total of 1.79


performance. “We are taking that


momentuminto 2011 in order tomake themost of growth opportunities in the international air freight industry.” The carrier is already


doingwell in its efforts to exploit that potential: the capacity increase of last year was achieved by reactivating Lufthansa Cargo’s parked freighters and through the addition of newB777F equipment at its AeroLogic subsidiary, aswell as the integration of the bellyhold capacity of the Austrian Airlines fleet. AeroLogic, the all-cargo airline jointly owned by


Bock – high payloads are guaranteed


Lufthansa Cargo andDHL Express, is certainly expanding. Its latest development sees it nowoffering weekday flights toDHL’smainNorth American hub in Cincinnati fromFrankfurt, adding to aweekend service fromLeipzig to the US gateway. AeroLogic also nowserves Dubai in its Europe to Asia flight network and recently added twice-weekly Los Angeles flights via Chicago fromFrankfurt, returning non-stop to the German airport. With the eighth and last of its B777


freighters delivered at the end of last year, the current phase of AeroLogic’s fleet expansion programme has reached completion. Any further fleet growthwill have to be discussed by the two shareholders, Lufthansa andDHL,


million tonnes of freight,more than 18 percent up on 2009,while cargo traffic reached 8.9 billion revenue tonne- km– a 19.9 percent year-on-year rise. The biggest increasewas in the Americas,where


volumes rose by nearly 25 percent, but the European and Asia Pacific segments also did verywell. With capacity having


increased by just 7.6 percent year-on-year to 12.6 billion available tonne- km, the overall cargo load factor also rose by 7.3 percentage points to 70.9 percent. According to Karl Ulrich


Garnadt, Lufthansa Cargo’s recently-appointed chairman and CEO: “After


Garnadt praises “an impressive team performance”


the 2009 crisis year, Lufthansa Cargo has come backwith outstanding results on the back of an impressive team


16 AIR LOGISTICSCHINA an AeroLogic spokesman confirmed.


VALUABLE LOAD Operating fromFrankfurt-Hahn airport, another Germany- based freighter operator – ACG Air Cargo Germany – began flying a 110-tonne payload B747-400 freighter twiceweekly between Hahn and Johannesburg in late November. Both of theweekly return flights fromJohannesburg’s


ORTambo International airport call atNairobi. ACG chief executiveMichael Bock believes that high payloads are guaranteed bothways on the service, thanks to a number of block-space agreements that have been signedwith leading freight forwarding agents. It is not all general cargo that is being shipped on this


newscheduled service. There are some pretty individual loads being carried aswell. ACG Air Cargo Germany moved a particularly special automotive shipment late last year, for example – a Rolls Royce Ghostmotor car – on behalf of global forwarder Ceva Logistics on the new Frankfurt-Hahn to Johannesburg routeing that its B747Fs nowfly.


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