# Lufthansa Cargo

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/lufthansa-cargo/  
**Website:** https://www.lufthansa-cargo.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 10

Lufthansa Cargo AG is the air freight arm of the Lufthansa Group, headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany. It sells and operates belly capacity across the Lufthansa passenger fleet plus its own Boeing 777F freighters, and runs the Frankfurt Cargo Center hub, so it sits in the chain as the airline carrier between the freight forwarder and the destination handling agent. Its API posture is real but two-speed: a live Apigee developer portal at developer.lufthansa-cargo.com publishes four OpenAPI 3.0 contracts anonymously downloadable without a login (Routing Offer, Shipment Tracking, Shipment Tracking Subscribe, Station Information), while six further API products in the same portfolio - smartBooking, Truck PreAdvice, ULD Status, AirMail, CargoXML and CargoIMP - are published only as info-block stubs carrying the sentence that access is granted upon prior approval and agreement. Registration is reviewed by Lufthansa Cargo API managers before keys are issued and production access requires successful test-environment validation, so this is application-approval, not self-serve. The published REST surface is a proprietary Lufthansa Cargo shape, but it carries open air-cargo vocabulary inside it - IATA AWB prefix 020 plus 8-digit AWB numbers, 3-letter IATA station codes and the IATA cargo status code set (RCS, MAN, DEP, ARR, RCF, NFD, DLV) - while the legacy Cargo-IMP and Cargo-XML EDI message sets remain in the portfolio as gated products and IATA ONE Record went live in July 2026 through the IBS Software ONE Record server rather than as anything Lufthansa Cargo publishes itself.

## Kin Score — 20.3 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 20.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 53.9 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 18.0 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Application approval · portal registration reviewed by LH Cargo API managers — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (10)

- **Lufthansa Cargo Shipment Tracking API** — Retrieves the current status of an air freight shipment by IATA Air Waybill, keyed on a 3-digit AWB prefix (020 = Lufthansa Cargo) plus an 8-digit AWB number. Returns the milest...
- **Lufthansa Cargo Shipment Tracking Subscribe API** — Subscription API that pushes shipment milestone updates to a caller-supplied HTTPS callback URL. Create, read, update, delete and list subscriptions for a given Air Waybill and ...
- **Lufthansa Cargo Routing Offer API** — Returns possible direct and connecting route offers between an origin and a destination 3-letter IATA airport code for a given departure date and Lufthansa Cargo product code, b...
- **Lufthansa Cargo Station Information API** — Reference data for Lufthansa Cargo stations worldwide, keyed on 3-letter IATA station codes. Lists all station codes, returns detail for a single station, and accepts a POST bat...
- **Lufthansa Cargo smartBooking API** — Prior-agreement API. Lufthansa Cargo's digital booking connect for forwarders wiring an in-house system to the carrier and for ePlatforms integrating LH Cargo offers and booking...
- **Lufthansa Cargo TruckPreAdvice API** — Prior-agreement API. Manages advance notification of truck deliveries as an alternative to the Quick Drop-Off/Pick-Up page in the Lufthansa ePortal. Documented functions are Sav...
- **Lufthansa Cargo ULDStatus API** — Prior-agreement API behind the smartULD add-on service. Exposes sensory data from smart Unit Load Devices - ambient temperature, battery level, geodata - plus container check st...
- **Lufthansa Cargo CargoXML API** — Prior-agreement API product named CargoXML in the Lufthansa Cargo portfolio, referencing the IATA Cargo-XML message standard. The portal publishes an OpenAPI 3.0.3 info block ti...
- **Lufthansa Cargo CargoIMP API** — Prior-agreement API product listed as CargoIMP in the portfolio, referencing the legacy IATA Cargo Interchange Message Procedures EDI message set. The portal publishes an OpenAP...
- **Lufthansa Cargo AirMail API** — Prior-agreement API product covering airmail carriage for postal operators. The portal publishes an OpenAPI 3.0.3 info block titled "AirMail APIs" whose entire description is th...

## Tags

Logistics, Supply Chain, Germany, Air Cargo, Freight, Track and Trace, Standards, Aviation

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/lufthansa-cargo/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.