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Topping-out ceremony for new animal station at Frankfurt Airport
POSTED: 9:14 a.m. EDT, June 21,2007
Construction at the new animal station at Frankfurt Airport is going well underway, a situation Lufthansa Cargo marked recently with a festive topping-out ceremony with its partners Dietz, Fraport and Hochtief Construction.
This is Europe's most modern animal station, which opens next year on a 7,150-square metre plot near Gate 26 at the Frankfurt cargo hub. The new facility with 3,750 square metres of floor space will accommodate all animal transport units now dispersed around Frankfurt Airport.
As the operator of the animal station, Lufthansa Cargo is once again underscoring its commitment to quality and its leading role as a driver of innovation in the international airfreight industry, said a Lufthansa statement.
Every year, the airline carries thousands of animals in containers aboard its MD-11 freighters and in the bellies of Lufthansa passenger aircraft. Along with lugworms, ornamental fish and chicks, Lufthansa Cargo transports more than 10,000 household pets and 1,300 horses a year. |
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