Lufthansa Cargo flew everything from a 65-ton machine for the automotive industry to exhibits for a ‘hip hop’ art show during 2024.
The German carrier also moved big cats, pygmy hippos and rare pandas through its Animal Lounge in Frankfurt, among the more notable being two Siberian tigers on their way to Almaty on a Lufthansa Cargo freighter in September 2024 to be released into the wild in Kazakhstan.
Other unusual passengers included the zoo-to-zoo transport of two pygmy hippos, which were transported from Madrid, Spain, to Frankfurt and then on to Mumbai, India, in April last year.
The rarest animal that Lufthansa Cargo hosted last year was the highly endangered red panda.
In March 2024, a special exhibition travelled from Chicago, to Frankfurt: the hip hop exhibition THE CULTURE was organized by the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Saint Louis Art Museum. A Lufthansa Cargo B777F transported 62 packages and 14,640 kg of art from Chicago to Frankfurt, using sustainable aviation fuel. The shipment moved through the ARTcube specialist facility at the Lufthansa Cargo Center in Frankfurt.
Another Lufthansa Cargo guest was the Berggruen exhibition, a collection with works by Picasso, Klee, Giacometti and Matisse on its world tour in August.
Lufthansa Cargo also transported 100,000 Mpox vaccines from Brussels to Kinshasa in mid-November, making a major contribution to the successful containment of the outbreak of the disease in the Congo.