DB Schenker and Lufthansa Extend SAF Freighter Flights until March
by Damian Brett (Air Cargo News) DB Schenker and Lufthansa Cargo are extending their sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) powered freighter flights between Frankfurt and Shanghai through the winter season, while Nokia has also joined the initiative.
The regular SAF-powered flights were launched earlier this year and the partners will now extend the programme through to March 2022.
The fuel requirement for the flight rotation from Frankfurt to Shanghai is covered entirely by SAF – through an allocation from a central pool – and saves around 174 tons of conventional kerosene every week.
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Over the next five months, Nokia will be using the carbon-neutral flight offer to ship a weekly freight volume of 10 tons of communications network equipment from a production facility in Shanghai to its European hub in Tilburg in the Netherlands.
The end-to-end agreement with DB Schenker covers both the air and land transport of the goods from Shanghai to Tilburg. All land transport elements will be covered utilizing another advanced type of biofuel, hydrogenated vegetable oil (HVO).
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The greenhouse gas emissions during the production and transport of the fuel are compensated with certified offset projects. READ MORE
DB Schenker, Lufthansa Cargo and Nokia join forces on CO2-neutral air freight (Luftansa Cargo)