The Lufthansa Cargo Center at Frankfurt Airport has posted a new transhipment record in the 2006 business year. During the year, the Center handled shipments totalling about 1.58 million tonnes, an increase of around 4.5 per cent on the previous year.

In total, about 2.1 million individual shipments passed through the Lufthansa Cargo Center in CargoCity North in the twelve months. Those shipments were moved into and out of Frankfurt Airport on aircraft operated by Lufthansa Cargo and its partners, in the belly holds of Lufthansa passenger aircraft and within Europe also by trucking services.

Lufthansa Cargo Center Manager Hjoerdis Stahl: 'The airfreight business is and remains a strong growth industry. Lufthansa Cargo is ideally positioned in Frankfurt to continue playing a leading role in future in the airfreighting business, worldwide. Lufthansa Cargo handled about two-thirds of the total tonnage transhipped through Frankfurt Airport in 2006.'

The Lufthansa Cargo Center (LCC) was opened in 1982. It is one of the world's biggest airfreight transhipment centres. About 80 per cent of all shipments airfreighted by Lufthansa Cargo pass through the hub.