LOGISTICS
“ We are responding to the continued growth in demand from the e-commerce industry ”
DOROTHEA VON BOXBERG CEO , LUFTHANSA CARGO
Air freight industry undergoing huge change Yet the hugely inflated margins in air freight barely even begin to tell the story of the profound changes the industry is undergoing .
Mainly as a result of shifting customer demand resulting from the pandemic , air freight providers are now looking to service the omnichannel model most retailers are moving to .
Increasingly , airlines are looking beyond traditional airport-to-airport services and are instead considering opportunities to provide end-to-end services – something that has powerful implications for global logistics .
One such company is Lufthansa Cargo . With a turnover of € 3.8bn and a transport performance of 7.2bn freight ton kilometres in 2021 , it is one of the world ' s leading air freight transport companies .
Lufthansa Cargo CEO Dorothea von Boxberg confirms that the demand for air freight capacity “ remains unbroken ”, and adds that the company ’ s most important goal “ remains offering our customers sufficient capacity on the routes that are most important to them ”.
Air freight servicing retail ’ s shift to omnichannel Increasingly , these routes are being used to service the ongoing e-commerce boom , which has also driven the collective move to omnichannel . supplychaindigital . com 77