29 March 2020:As the COVID-19 pandemic continue to spread across the world, many Cargo services have sprung into action to provide medical and essential services. As urgent medical equipment for healthcare workers and coronavirus patients continue to arrive at the Frankfurt Airport from all over the world, Frankfurt Cargo Services (FCS) is ensuring immediate processing of all incoming shipments to expedite their delivery to frontline medical teams.
With increasing demand FCS has also handled seven tons of respirator masks from China for the German Ministry of Health, which arrived in Frankfurt on board Air China and China Southern Airlines' flights. This equipment is now in use in hospitals across the country.
Claus Wagner, Managing Director at FCS, said "Alongside our priorities of safety and security, all the emphasis for these shipments is on speed because the faster this equipment reaches medical professionals, the more lives they can save. In these extreme circumstances, our team are using all of their longstanding handling expertise to ensure every flight is unloaded and loaded, and all cargo processed, with immediate effect because we recognize our responsibility to support key workers all over Germany. FCS staffs, along with employees across the transport and logistics sector, have been designated as 'pillars of society' by the German government to ensure we can continue to perform our vital role as part of Germany's rapid response to coronavirus."
Other life-saving shipments have included respirator masks from Asia, which touched down in Frankfurt on their way to Romania, and medical equipment carried on board an Aeromexico Boeing787-900.