Lufthansa Cargo announced that it will further develop and renew the logistics centre at its home hub in Frankfurt "on a modular basis".

In a statement, the German airfreight company said its Supervisory Board approved respective investments in a comprehensive infrastructure programme for the logistics centre.

The complete modernisation of the Lufthansa Cargo Center has already begun in January 2021 and is to be completed in 2028.

"With this renewal of our logistics centre, we are investing in our airfreight base in Frankfurt and thus creating the structural requirements for even faster and more efficient air freight," said Peter Gerber, CEO of the cargo airline.

"The special thing about our infrastructure programme is that it is able to react flexibly to market developments and the changing needs of our customers," Harald Gloy, Lufthansa Cargo's Chief Operations Officer, added.

"The holistically planned upgrading of the building infrastructure in combination with improvements to the logistics system and internal material flows will further increase the handling speed of shipments as well as the service quality for all Lufthansa Cargo customers."

The cargo centre in Frankfurt is Lufthansa Cargo's home hub, handling around 80 per cent of its global freight volume.

It noted that the carrier's commitment to digitalisation, new product requirements and the further increasing importance of e-commerce have changed the demands on the logistics centre.