Major Expansion in Southern Germany, Animal Transport Services Vastly Expanded

Effective immediately, April 2012, G.K Airfreight Services GmbH, the leading pet and animal air transport shipping service will now also have a Munich Airport administrative and operations presence at Munich’s Franz Josef Strauss Airport.

Operations began April 10th, 2012, when GK’s seasoned animal transport specialists opened the new office which is located in Module F, Room #125, in the first floor of the Munich Airport Freight Terminal.

GK’s customers in those parts of Germany and other nearby countries will benefit from GK’s petshipping services in the new Bavarian location given the reduced distances to the Munich site as transient animals will enjoy shorter travel distances prior to flying to international destinations.

Travel abroad in far distant lands is a wonderful thing. However, relocation to a far-off continent is another matter, a real challenge, especially if a beloved pet house cat is part of the move and all the arrangements have to be made long-distance and through third parties.

Transporting dangerous animals like highly poisonous reptiles such as southern African Spitting Cobras demands utmost care given their lethal nature. Having more than 40-years’ experience transporting zoo animals large and small, gentle and ferocious, G.K. Air Animal Transport Services headquartered at Frankfurt Airport knows how to contend with these challenges: This was recently proven when G.K. airlifted these vipers from Frankfurt to Florida.

Transporting a shipment of birds by air is certainly not a great challenge for the well-seasoned members of the G.K. Air Animal Transportation Services’ team – were it not for the destination: Iraq. Otherwise, the bird relocation would be like any other.

Relocating two young, 18-month old jaguarundis (Puma yaguarundi) from Dortmund, Germany to Panama City, Florida, in the United States, was a recent first for G.K. Airfreight Service - the Animal Transportation Service. For, despite its 40-year history relocating zoo animals and providing pet transportation, G.K Air never before had dealings with this species. Most people have never heard of a jaguarundi, much less seen one. This was truly a “first.”

Indeed, the jaguarundi is the least “catlike” of feline animals. They resemble martens or weasels more than cats, and their natural habitat is Central and South America where they are considered an endangered species. The Dortmund Zoo was providing the Bear Creek Feline City in Florida the opportunity to present jaguarundis for the very first time, relocating the animals from urban Central Europe to sub-topical Florida.