CB Customs Broker GmbH, a subsidiary of Lufthansa Cargo, announced a new partnership with the handling expert GEORGI Handling, aimed to further expand the e-commerce business at Frankfurt Airport.

The full-service customs agency said that with this, both companies are creating a new e-commerce terminal in Cargo City South.

 Source: Lufthansa Cargo

"The new focal point in the south of Frankfurt Airport opens up another important base in the direction of the Asian market," Lufthansa Cargo said in an announcement during the transport logistic 2023 in Munich.

It added that airlines from Asia — which frequently land in the southern part of the hub in Frankfurt — can thus use the companies' integrated solutions and have eCommerce shipments handled automatically and quickly.

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"We want to become the leading expert for eCommerce customs clearance in Germany. To achieve this, we have developed our own software that digitizes all the necessary customs clearance processes and, thanks to the high degree of automation, is able to process large order volumes in a very short time," said Uwe Glunz, managing director of CB Customs Broker.

"The new partnership is another milestone towards this vision and enables us to offer our integrated and automated solutions now also in Cargo City South."

Glunz added that with GEORGI Handling, CB Customs Broker has found a partner that "reliably and quickly takes care of the physical handling directly on-site."

"We are thus creating a first-class, innovative offering specifically for the Asian region," the CB Customs Broker managing director said.

In the initial phase, the new e-commerce terminal will be operated on around 5,000 square meters in GEORGI Handling's existing cargo hall in Building 568 on the Cargo City South site.

With increasing e-commerce volumes at the Frankfurt site, Lufthansa said the operation of an independent hall with tailored processes for the handling of e-commerce shipments is planned in the medium term.

In the long term, a fully automated sorting facility will guarantee state-of-the-art handling for potential customers in the final expansion stage.

"We want to actively expand the e-commerce market at Frankfurt Airport. Together with our subsidiaries, we have developed a number of innovative solutions for this purpose, which enables us to implement holistic solutions for our customers," said Ashwin Bhat, CEO of Lufthansa Cargo.

"The new partnership of our customs expert CB Customs Broker with GEORGI is an important and good further step in this direction," he added.