Lufthansa Cargo plans to significantly expand the Cool Center at its home hub in Frankfurt
“After five years of success, we want more. That is why we intend to further upgrade and significantly expand our Cool Center in the coming year,” said Dr. Alexis von Hoensbroech, Lufthansa Cargo Board Member Product and Sales.
The Lufthansa Cargo Cool Center was completed in December 2011 after just six months of construction. It now covers 4,500 square meters and boasts four cold-storage rooms kept at different temperatures (2 to 8 degrees C, 15 to 25 degrees C, -12 to -20 degrees C and 5 to 15 degrees C) as well as a deep-freeze room and direct access to the apron. This means it is already Europe’s largest airline hub for temperature-sensitive cargo. It should cover 8,000 square meters from late summer 2017.
Construction work on the 3,500-square-meters expansion is due to begin in February 2017. Besides the expansion, all of the Cool Center infrastructure will also be upgraded.
“The expansion is driven by continuous growth in temperature-sensitive cargo. We are pleased that our customers are benefiting from our comprehensive experience. We want to be their first choice in the future as well,” said von Hoensbroech.
Airline association IATA recently awarded Lufthansa Cargo and the Cool Center the CEIV seal for pharmaceutical transports. Lufthansa Cargo is continually improving its service, taking into account the special requirements of the pharmaceutical industry and all EU GDP guidelines (Good Distribution Practice of Medicinal Products for Human Use). Since summer 2016, Lufthansa Cargo has also been offering its customers maximum transparency with its “Cool Control Tower” monitoring solutions for temperature-sensitive goods.
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Lufthansa Cargo ranks among the world’s leading air freight carriers. In the 2015 business year, the airline transported around 1.6 million tonnes of freight and mail and sold 8.4 billion revenue tonne-kilometres. The company currently employs about 4,600 people worldwide. Lufthansa Cargo focuses on the airport-to-airport business. The cargo carrier serves around 300 destinations in over 100 countries with its own fleet of freighters, the belly capacities of passenger aircraft operated by Lufthansa, Austrian Airlines and Eurowings, as well as an extensive road feeder service network. The bulk of the cargo business is routed through Frankfurt Airport. Lufthansa Cargo is a wholly owned Lufthansa subsidiary of Deutsche Lufthansa AG.
