July 20, 2011

Extension of collaboration

Lufthansa Technik Logistik (LTL) and SuperJet International are stepping up a collaboration that dates from the beginning of 2009. Under a contract extension LTL will supplement the warehousing service it already provides in Frankfurt by taking over all the transport services for the Italian-Russian aircraft manufacturer, thus ensuring rapid and reliable spares provisioning for customers of SuperJet.

Lufthansa Technik Logistik was selected by SuperJet International to be its global logistics provider two years ago. In this capacity in the medium term Lufthansa Technik Logistik will hold spares from the aircraft manufacturer’s component pool in its Frankfurt warehouse. Under the new agreement LTL will now also be responsible for transporting materials from SuperJet International’s suppliers in France, Switzerland, Germany, the United Kingdom and the USA to the LTL warehouse in Frankfurt and from there to the Superjet 100 operators. This will include not only routine transports but also ad hoc support in the event of an aircraft on ground (AOG) incident.

LTL will start by supplying the launching customers of the new Sukhoi Superjet 100, Aeroflot Russian Airlines at Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow and the Armavia Air Company at Yerevan Airport in Armenia.

In this connection the warehouse which is part of the new LTL logistics facility in CargoCity South at Frankfurt Airport will assume the role of a central material pool. In March 2011 the first shipment arrived in Frankfurt and was successfully entered into the system; others followed without a hitch in April. Over the next few months it is expected that LTL will supply a growing number of SuperJet customers as delivery numbers have stepped up.