Lufthansa Cargo and German Federal Ministry of Transport to strengthen air cargo efficiency

Lufthansa Cargo along with the German Federal Ministry of Transport (BMVI) has come together for a new federal research project “Digital Test Field Air Cargo”. The aim is to increase the efficiency, performance and competitiveness of air cargo in Germany by improving the networking of all the players involved and digitizing processes. This project will be coordinated by the Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics (IML).
“We are pleased that the Federal Ministry of Transport has clearly committed itself to air freight in Germany with the Digital Test Field Air Cargo. We want to contribute to further strengthening Germany as a business location. That is why we are contributing our many years of experience in digitalization along the supply chain to this nationwide project and ultimately also want to set international standards. Digitalizing air freight further also means making it more sustainable. To this end, we see great potential in optimized data exchange between all partners in the airfreight transport chain, for example, which we want to leverage,” said Harald Gloy, Lufthansa Cargo’s Executive Board member for Operations and Human Resources and a member of the BMVI’s Innovation Commission.