Transport communications

Portcare International is the press relations consultancy for the shipping and logistics industry. Formed by transport people for transport people. We can truly claim to understand our clients’ needs and ‘talk the same language’. Portcare provide effective, value for money PR to some of the industry’s best-known names.

Dachser teams up as Global Partner with Lufthansa Cargo

Kempten/Frankfurt, 10th February 2012: Dachser has become a new member of the cargo carrier’s top customer programme following the signing of an agreement in January. As well as sharing in worldwide growth in the air freight market, the Global Partnership Programme is geared to increasing closer cooperation and the dovetailing of capacity planning, reducing transaction costs and promoting key industry issues.

Thomas Reuter, Managing Director Dachser Air & Sea Logistics, and Dr. Andreas Otto, Lufthansa Cargo Member of the Executive Board, at the signing of the agreement.

The Lufthansa Cargo Global Partnership Programme has evolved in recent years into a major platform for stability and growth. Over the same period, Dachser has expanded into a strong global logistics provider. “With Dachser in the membership base, we have additionally strengthened our Global Partnership Programme,” emphasized Dr Andreas Otto, Lufthansa Cargo Board Member Product and Sales. “The two companies have significantly expanded their joint business in recent years. Dachser is pursuing an impressive and successful global expansion model and we are delighted to be part of it. We now intend to continue on that path in even closer partnership.”

The two companies are looking to jointly enhance their global market presence by utilizing synergy effects. Above all, Dachser stands to benefit from even better access to capacities. An advantage the logistics provider can pass on directly to its customers. But that is not all: “Lufthansa Cargo is with its closely meshed route network, the high frequency of its services and excellent quality a strong partner for our intercontinental business,” explains Thomas Reuter, managing director Dachser Air & Sea Logistics.

With a route network that covers some 300 destinations in over 100 countries, the airline ranks among the world’s leading air freight carriers.