Dear Sirs and Madams,

Welcome to the latest issue of planet Trends, Lufthansa Cargo's online platform dealing with current developments in the airfreight industry!

planet Trends is a debate forum that you should feel free to join at any time. Please take the opportunity to get in contact with me personally via my column “1 on 1 with Andreas Otto” with any questions and issues you would like to address. Thank you very much! This time, I will be looking into queries from customers based in the Indian market.

Once again our “Figures and Trends” fact sheets contain exciting statistics: You will learn more about the drop in inventories in the USA, a prime indicator of the opportunities open to the airfreight industry. We also highlight the trend towards consolidation among cargo airlines and look at the market ratio of belly and freight capacity.

This time, our station portrait focuses on Osaka, and in our video link we feature Lufthansa Cargo's new Cool Center in Frankfurt. Under the heading “Current topic” I would like to present a current outlook on the year 2012 from the viewpoint of Lufthansa Cargo.

Yours sincerely,
Dr. Andreas Otto