On February 1 Lufthansa Technik AG opened a pool storage facility in Singapore for aircraft components. This expansion of services in the Asia-Pacific region offers the company's customers there an even more direct access to aircraft material on a 24/7 basis. Having a distribution center in Singapore also enhances service quality through faster provision times and a regional contact partner.

 

The warehouse, which will be operated by Lufthansa Technik Logistik Services GmbH (LTLS), is located very close to Changi International Airport (SIN), enabling fast transport of aircraft components. In addition to the handling and storage of routine shipments, the facility will handle both Aircraft on Ground (AOG) shipments and those of dangerous goods (DGR).

 

"Singapore is an outstanding location for connecting to our customers' destinations. This puts us in a position to react even more flexibly to our customers' requirements. In the future, we want to expand our spectrum of services even further and enable our customers to turn over material directly to us in Singapore," says Dr. Burkhard Andrich, Senior Vice President Aircraft Component Services at Lufthansa Technik, explaining the company's choice of location.

 

Andreas Meisel, Managing Director of Lufthansa Technik Logistik Services, offers an outlook on the next steps: "In opening this warehouse, we're keeping up with one of the most rapidly growing markets for MRO services for aircraft. We're starting with the storage and handling of materials for all the usual Airbus aircraft types, but we're already planning to develop the portfolio to include material of other aircraft types and expand our logistics services for other customers of Lufthansa Technik and LTLS."