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Peter Gerber has been named as the new chief executive and chairman of Luſthansa Cargo, while current cargo chief Karl Ulrich Garnadt is to head up the carrier’s passenger business. Gerber has been responsible at


Luſthansa cargo Designated chairman of the


board level for human resources, IT and services on the executive board of Luſthansa German Airlines since June 2012 and takes up his new position on 1 May.


executive board and CEO of Deutsche Luſthansa, Carsten Spohr, said: “We can be certain that he will continue the excellent work of Karl Garnadt and will lead Luſthansa Cargo successfully in a difficult market environment,” adding: “I firmly believe that Luſthansa Passenger Airlines is in good hands with Karl Garnadt. I feel good about handing the airline over to him.”


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UPS has officially opened a $200 million expansion of its European air hub facilities at Cologne/Bonn Airport in Germany. It is one of UPS’s largest-ever facility investments, the equivalent of 15 football fields of sorting space and it increases the hub’s package sorting capacity by 70% to 190,000 packages per hour - or around 53 a second.


Lufthansa Cargo’s new Boeing 777F - christened Jambo Kenya or Hello Kenya - landed in Nairobi, Kenya for the first time on 11 March, following a flight from Frankfurt via Johannesburg. On arrival, the freighter was officially christened in the presence of Kenya Airports Authority chairman Professor Mutuma Mugambi, German Ambassador, Andreas Peschke, and Lufthansa Cargo Director Africa, Hermann Zunker.


TNT Express says it will invest tens of millions of euros in improvements to its hub in Liege, Belgium. The investment, which is subject to consultation with works councils, will increase the hub’s sorting capacity by 50% and improve health and safety for the 1,500 employees. The plans include new sorting systems to increase speed and capacity. Work will begin in 2014 and end in 2016. The investment will mean shorter handling times for export goods and urgent deliveries, as well as better handling of fragile items, says TNT.


Global head of cargo at the International Air Transport Association (IATA), Des Vertannes, is to retire in June aſter four years in the post. He said: “Aſter a long and incredibly fulfilling career in air cargo, the time has come for me to pass on the baton and spend some more time with my family.”


DHL supply chain chief executive officer Bruce Edwards is to retire from Deutsche Post DHL’s board of management. His successor is John Gilbert who has been responsible for DHL’s supply chain business in the Americas as regional CEO since 2008.


DHL Freight has appointed Serge Gregoir as its new country manager for thet UK, based at Coalville. He started his career with DHL in the IT department of DHL Freight Belgium in 2003 and has held various positions as project and IT manager before taking over as global head of lead logistics provider and control tower solutions in 2012.


DB Schenker Logistics UK has been appointed Matthias Kraus as new country head of air freight. He was previously general manager in Nuneaton for the DB Schenker Group.


The WACO System forwarders’ network appointed four new members at its general meeting in Lisbon in mid-April. They are: Kuwait Maritime & Mercantile, Lyn Cargo Express in the Dominican Republic, BCC Logistics in Iraq, and OMA Group of West Africa.


ANA Airline Management has moved the European base of its fleet of cargo aircraſt from Ostend to Liege. The two MD11Fs and one Boeing 747‐400F operate scheduled routes to and from Africa as well as long-term and ad hoc charter flights. The carrier said that while it had been operating from Ostend since 2007, there was now a wide difference in fuel costs between the two airports.


Turkish carrier Pegasus Airlines has increased its flights from Istanbul’s Sabiha Gokcen Airport to Tel Aviv to three times a day, following the launch of the route in June 2012. Connections are available from London Stansted.


IAG Cargo has replaced the narrowbody Airbus A321 aircraſt with wide-body Boeing 777 aircraſt on seven of its 14 weekly flights between London Heathrow and Tel Aviv, boosting cargo capacity tenfold. The new aircraſt can carry up to carry 18 tonnes on the Heathrow-Tel Aviv route and 16 tons on the Tel Aviv-Heathrow leg. IAG’s Iberia has meanwhile added an extra weekly flight between Madrid and Panama City.


Cargolux is to start regular scheduled services between Luxembourg and Zhengzhou, central China from 24 April. The carrier intends to operate at least four weekly flights via Baku in the outbound direction. Zhengzhou has daily road feeder services to coastal cities such as Beijing and Shanghai as well as inland cities such as Xi’an, Wuhan, Chengdu and Chongqing.


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