Lufthansa Cargo targets high-value tech, auto, pharma sectors

Lufthansa Cargo past twelvemonth devoted much strategical absorption to serving the pharmaceutical, automotive, aviation, semiconductor and airmail sectors, creating further avenues for profitable maturation beyond wide freight.

The enlargement of high-margin tailored proscription offerings for specific  manufacture sectors contributed to the airline’s 29% maturation successful operating nett successful 2025.

The cargo subsidiary of Deutsche Lufthansa AG (FRA: LHA) generated adjusted net earlier involvement and taxes of 324 cardinal euros, equivalent to $377 million, according to fiscal results issued this month.

Lufthansa Cargo operates 12 ample Boeing 777 freighter craft and 4 modular Airbus A321 converted freighters. It besides manages freight carried successful the bellies of rider craft astatine sister carriers Lufthansa Airlines, Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines and ITA Airways. Lufthansa Cargo besides is liable for selling the capacities of six 777 freighters successful the AeroLogic associated task with DHL Express.

Last year, Lufthansa Cargo devoted much strategical absorption connected serving the pharmaceutical, automotive, aviation, semiconductor and airmail sectors, creating further avenues for profitable maturation beyond wide freight.

In July, Lufthansa Cargo became the archetypal hose to articulation the high-tech web “Silicon Saxony,” opening the doorway for the hose to make merchandise offerings for highly delicate semiconductors and fortify its beingness successful the innovation economy. Silicon Saxony is Europe’s largest relation of companies successful the microelectronics, semiconductor and IT sectors. The freight hose said it intends to enactment successful committees and moving groups connected optimized logistics solutions for delicate electronics components arsenic good arsenic associated prime and process standards.

For automotive customers, Lufthansa Cargo has further professionalized its transport process for full vehicles and developed a new, standardized process for lashing down cargo and ready-for-loading delivery. The caller methods trim the measurement of handling work, amended process prime and make further gross potential, according to Lufthansa’s yearly report.

The bearer precocious described however it has operated peculiar charter flights for automotive customers, including an A321 that flew connected little than 24-hour announcement from Frankfurt, Germany, to Vienna, Austria, to prime up a load of components and present them to Belgrade, Serbia, to support a accumulation enactment from going down. Two further charter flights followed successful consequent days, it said successful a quality release.