Lufthansa, Fraport sign air cargo partnership
Fraport and Lufthansa Cargo have agreed on a strategic partnership for further developing Frankfurt Airport (FRA) as an air cargo hub.
The agreement was signed by Dr Wilhelm Bender and Stefan Lauer, the executive chairmen of Fraport and Lufthansa Cargo: “It is our common goal to develop Frankfurt Airport as Europe’s most attractive and competitive air cargo hub,” they both said.
The strategic partnership will ensure joint planning of the overall airline-airport system and will intensify further the system partnership of the world’s second-biggest cargo airline and Europe’s biggest cargo airport. With this initiative, the partners are also responding to the increasingly tough competitive situation in global air cargo transportation.
“In this competition between the significant airports in global air transportation, everything depends on the quality and efficiency of the total system and on the cooperation between the airline and airport within this system,” stressed Mr Bender and Mr Lauer.
“We want to make disproportionately great use of the extraordinary growth potential in the airfreight industry, become clearly the number one in Europe, increasingly throw our mutual strong points into the scales – which are process efficiency, service quality, speed, and strategic location – and want to achieve above-average commercial success.”
