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Freight needs the night

Thursday, 24 June 2010 at 12:01 clock Tarun Sharma Tweet me!

The German transport and logistics industry is committed to competitive operating times at German airports. (Photo: Lufthansa Cargo AG)
Kelsterbach, 24.06.2010 - The German transport and logistics industry is committed to competitive operating times at German airports. In Frankfurt today, founded the German Freight Forwarders and Logistics Association (DSLV), the Federal Association of Road Haulage, Logistics and Disposal (BGL), the Freight Forwarding and Logistics Association of Hessen / Rhineland-Palatinate, the Board of Airline Representatives in Germany (BARIG) and the Air Cargo Club Germany in cooperation with Lufthansa Cargo AG, the initiative "The freight needs the night."

At a press conference at Frankfurt Airport, presented the honorary manager of the initiative, Ewald home, the goals of the Alliance ". The logistics industry, the backbone of the export-oriented German economy prerequisite for success in the global markets are well functioning air cargo services, the initiative." Freight needs the night "will thus strive vigorously for competitive operating times at German airports."

Air freight at Frankfurt airport

Frankfurt Airport - Frankfurt airport expansion for air freight. Der is one of the main centers of global logistics in Europe. The companies that have settled in the Cargo City South, where it built its own terminals for cargo handling read like a "who's who" of global logistics.

In June of this year, where the foundation stone for a new cargo service center of Lufthansa Cargo AG was established that the cargo-handling areas Lufthansa - will expand by one third - about 70,000 square feet in the hall CargoCity north of the airport. At the same time opens up the largest cargo airline at Frankfurt airport, which changes here yearly 1.5 million tons of cargo, new customers among carriers and freight specialists operating in the south of the airport.

Look at the Frankfurt Airport Cargo City Süd - Europe is the most important hub for air cargo with this investment decision, the system partner Lufthansa, Fraport AG Frankfurt Airport expanded its position as Europe's most important air cargo hub continues. More than that: half of all air cargo is handled by 20 airports worldwide, and in that order, occupied the airport Frankfurt

7th place, after the cargo specialists Memphis and Anchorage as well as the Asian giant Hong Kong, Shanghai, Seoul and Tokyo.