Lufthansa installs temperature controls

Lufthansa Cargo is to install precise temperature control units in the lower deck compartments of its MD11 freighters. At the same time, it is expanding the size of its temperature-regulated storage areas at Chicago airport, which has become the airline’s main trans-shipment centre for temperature-sensitive traffic.

According to a spokesperson, these developments are a further part of Lufthansa’s development of its Cool/td service for temperature-sensitive cargo. “We can now offer our customers in the pharmaceutical sector an optimised refrigerated chain”, he stated.

The technical and logistical concept of Cool/td was developed in close co-operation with shippers of pharmaceuticals and their freight forwarders. Vaccines, serums, plasma and biotechnological material are some of the products which the airline is now carrying in special refrigerated containers, which are handled by specially trained staff.

The airline raised rates for the Cool/td shipments at the beginning of October. It claimed the increase was due to the “significant price enhancements” in container rentals by the supplier of the refrigerated boxes, which were so high that Lufthansa was forced to pass the increase on to its customers.

14th October 2003

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