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DHL HUB LEIPZIG/HALLE:THE LOGISTICS HUB THAT MOVESTHE WORLD

DHL Hub Leipzig/Halle

32 DHL Hub Leipzig/Halle Contents DHL Hub Leipzig/Halle Introduction

DHL HUB LEIPZIG/HALLE:

THE LOGISTICS HUB THAT MOVES THE WORLD

3 From the heart of Europe to the world

A location with a future guarantees success in competition

High-tech logistics facilitate growth

4 One location with many strengths

Platform for stronger growth

High-performance logistics attract business

“Hub and spokes” – Integration into the DHL network

Networked operations and combined transport

The hub as a creator of jobs

8 The making of a logistics hub

Three years from site selection to operational launch

Four-phase transition

The DHL flights and fleet

12 The hub in action

An overview of the hub’s nightlife

High-performance sorting facility

18 Sustainability

Economy and ecology go hand in hand

Fast and environmentally friendly: No contradiction

Modern technology protects the environment

Not a single flight too many

Less aircraft noise and lower CO2 emissions

Social responsibility and being a good neighbor

22 Springboard to success

Attracting other businesses with the hub

More than just a business location

FROM THE HEART OF EUROPE TO THE WORLD

A location with a future guarantees success in

competition

Situated in the heart of Europe and boasting excellent

transport connections, the new hub is the perfect logis-

tics springboard for internationally operating companies.

It offers a myriad of direct connections to the growth

markets in Eastern Europe and Asia. The international

express business has been growing for years now and

will likely continue to expand in the future as well,

giving the Leipzig/Halle site the potential to become yet

another success story for the express and logistics specia-

lists. In light of this development, DHL needed additional

starting and landing capacity in Central Europe. This

capacity was not available at the company’s existing

European hub in Brussels, however. Leipzig/Halle, on the

other hand, met DHL’s key requirements: establishment

of additional flight capacity and virtually no restrictions

on nighttime flights.

DHL uses Leipzig/Halle as a base from which to serve the world market,

and in particular business customers, with a product in ever-greater demand:

rapid transport of goods and documents.

High-tech logistics facilitate growth

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WarehouseDimensions: 413 meters long,

97 meters wide, 16 meters high

Work surface: 48,000 square meters – equivalent to five soccer fields

Main function: Sorting DHL parcels and documents for further shipment to destinations worldwide

1 HangarDimensions: 232 meters long,

98 meters wide, 30 meters high

Total surface area: Approximately 23,000 squaremeters – with enough room fortwo Airbus A380 jumbo jets

Main function: Servicing DHL planes

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The Leipzig/Halle hub is located in the metro-

politan center of Leipzig/Halle, one of the

strongest economic areas in the new German

federal states. The region is characterized by

dynamic growth. More and more businesses are

now settling here, both modern service compa-

nies and representatives of the traditional

electronics, chemical, machine construction,

publishing and printing industries. The largest

urban metropolis in the region is the exhibition

and congress city of Leipzig, which has become

one of Germany’s most important research,

medical and cultural centers. Whether the Leipzig

Book Fair, the Gewandhausorchester, the well-

traveled Thomanerchor or the modern television

tower erected by the public broadcaster Mittel-

deutscher Rundfunk, Leipzig’s economic, cultural

and media flagships are renowned the world

over. They are further augmented by a diverse

array of outstanding universities and educational

institutes. What’s more, the citizens of Leipzig can

look back at recent German history with a sense

of pride. In the fall of 1989, it was they who

initiated the “Monday demonstrations” that

attracted attention worldwide, thereby providing

the decisive impulse for peaceful political

revolution and Germany’s reunification.

DHL invested a total of EUR 300 million in the

construction of the new hub with a world-class

logistics infrastructure.At its heart are the distri-

bution center, also known as the warehouse ,

and the hangar . Completing the hub ensemble

are the apron , the tank station and the

administration building adjacent to the

warehouse.The total surface area for buildings

and planes covers approx. 200 hectares.The

distribution center is home to the largest sorting

facility in Germany (see Chapter 4) including 6.5

kilometers of sorting belts.With a price tag of

EUR 70 million, it was the largest single invest-

ment in the construction of the airfreight hub.

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5DHL Hub Leipzig/Halle Site selection4 DHL Hub Leipzig/Halle Site selection

Platform for stronger growth

In choosing Leipzig/Halle, DHL selected a location with

the requisite conditions to successfully handle the ever-

increasing volume of shipments and the heightened

competition in the global express business. Not just

today, but tomorrow as well. The contract concluded in

2005 between DHL, the Leipzig/Halle Airport and

Mitteldeutscher Flughafen AG sets forth the rights and

obligations of the involved parties for the next 30 years,

giving DHL customers and employees maximum long-

term planning security.

The new hub’s central location in the heart of Europe is its

logistical trump card – but geography is just one of many

reasons that tipped the decision in favor of Leipzig/Halle.

ONE LOCATION WITH MANY STRENGTHS

High-performance logistics attract business

In the long term, the DHL aviation hub offers sufficient

capacity to handle the increased volume of shipments

that experts predict for the European air express business.

As a logistics “calling card,” the hub is boosting the region’s

overall economic attractiveness. Companies from growth

sectors such as IT and telecommunications as well as the

automotive, pharmaceutical and machine building

industries all benefit from having a high-performance

airfreight hub near their sites. Thanks to 24-hour

operation with takeoffs and landings 365 days a year,

companies from the region have access to the integrated

service they need for what are often time-critical goods

and documents: late acceptance of outgoing shipments

and worldwide overnight delivery with short transit

times to all of the world’s major centers of business.

“Hub and spokes” – Integration into the

DHL network

DHL serves destinations in more than 220 countries and

territories around the world with its full-coverage

transport network. However, direct connections do not

exist between all of the airports in these countries – that

would require a vast number of flights as well as creating

capacity utilization problems due to the varying volume

of goods for transport on different routes. As a result,

items are pooled at certain central points, re-sorted,

consolidated into sensible loading units and then

transported onward to their final destination. These

central points are comparable to the hub of a bicycle

wheel with many spikes leading to it. Leipzig/Halle is a

main node in this system of hubs and spokes, serving as a

European hub in the international Express network.

Every night, flights from all over the world converge here

with cargo for distribution across Europe – and cargo

from all over Europe is gathered here for transport

throughout the world. Regularly scheduled flights depart

each day from the new airfreight hub to approximately 50

destinations in Europe, Asia and the United States.*

GERMANY

ENGLAND

NORWAY

DENMARK

SWEDEN

IRELAND

FRANCE

SPAIN

PORTUGAL

ITALY

SWITZERLANDAUSTRIA

POLAND

TURKEY

GREECE

HOLLAND

* Including Athens, Bahrain, Balaton, Barcelona, Basle, Bergamo, Bologna, Bratislava, Brussels, Cologne/Bonn, Copenhagen, Delhi, EastMidlands, Frankfurt am Main, Geneva, Gdansk, Hamburg, Helsinki, Hong Kong, Istanbul, Katowice, Kiev, Linz, Ljubljana, London,Luxembourg, Lyons, Madrid, Marseille, Moscow, Munich, Nantes, New York, Nuremberg, Ostrava, Paris, Prague, Rome, Sharjah (UAE),Singapore, Sofia, Stockholm, Stuttgart, Victoria and Warsaw.

Networked operations and combined transport

The hub at the Leipzig/Halle airport offers excellent

regional and intercontinental connectivity. From here,

the growth markets in Central and Eastern Europe are

within easy reach by air, road and rail. The ability to

combine these three key modes of transport as a

“trimodal” hub guarantees economic and eco-friendly

connectivity to short and medium-range destinations. In

addition, DHL expects the new freight train station at the

hub to further enhance connectivity with the rails.

Starting in winter 2008/2009, DHL will be using Deutsche

Bahn freight trains to transport items between Leipzig/

Halle and the Frankfurt am Main airport. These trains

will thus link two of the most important airfreight sites in

Germany.

The hub as a creator of jobs

In choosing Leipzig/Halle as the new hub site, DHL has opened up

new career prospects for many people. That is especially important

in a region with an unemployment level still hovering above the

German average. By mid-2008, approximately 48,000 men and

women had applied for the new jobs. Many different kinds of

professions are needed at the hub, ranging from loading and sorting

positions offering even less qualified workers the opportunity for

employment and jobs for maintenance staff and aircraft technicians

to employment for pilots and other university-educated specialists.

All of the jobs are tariff-bound, permanent positions with annual

income above the regional industry average. An estimated 2,000

employees were working at the hub in September 2008. Their

number is expected to rise to approximately 3,500 by 2012. Nearly

90% of the newly employed workers come from the region around

the airport. Two-thirds of them were previously unemployed.

Some 7,000 more jobs will likely be created in the surrounding

area, bringing the total number of direct and indirect new jobs

around the Leipzig/Halle hub to approximately 10,000. In addition,

DHL is training young people in the various logistics and IT

professions at the airfreight hub.

9DHL Hub Leipzig/Halle Construction8 DHL Hub Leipzig/Halle Construction

THE MAKING OF A LOGISTICS HUB

Chancellor Merkel on a tour of the site, where the hull of

the warehouse already stood gleaming in DHL yellow. The

hub’s operative headquarters were transferred to DHL in

mid-2007, as were the aircraft hangar and the office tract

directly adjacent to the warehouse. While DHL was busy

with it own construction work, the Leipzig airport was

completing the 3,600-meter-long southern runway.

Originally planned for fall 2008, the hub’s operative launch

DHL’s new European hub was officially opened for operations in

late May 2008.Approximately two years were all that was

needed to construct a world-class logistics center just outside

the city of Leipzig.The project’s rapid progress is even more

impressive considering the hub’s minutely detailed and carefully

coordinated logistics choreography.

was moved forward to spring 2008. In late May, Deutsche

Post CEO Frank Appel officially declared the hub open for

business. Among the prominent guests attending the

opening celebration were the German Federal Minister for

Foreign Affairs Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the German

Federal Minister of Transport Wolfgang Tiefensee and

Georg Milbradt, the Minister President of the German

state of Saxony at that time.

Three years from site selection to operational launch

In 2005, Deutsche Post decided to build a new hub in

Germany, in the heart of Europe, because night-flight

operations could not be expanded at the existing DHL hub

in Brussels. The two million square meters of ground

between the Leipzig/Halle airport and the village of

Schkeuditz to the west of Leipzig stood empty until

construction began in February 2006. From then on,

however, things developed at a fast pace. In October 2006,

Michael Reinboth, the project manager responsible for the

construction and operation of the hub, took German

Deutsche Post CEO Frank Appel with

German Federal Minister for Foreign

Affairs Frank-Walter Steinmeier and

German Federal Minister of Transport

Wolfgang Tiefensee (from left) at the

opening ceremony for the hub in late

May 2008.

The new hub has been in full operation ever since

DHL transferred all flights from its former European

hub in Brussels to Leipzig/Halle.Approximately 60

airplanes take off and land each night – one

machine every five minutes between midnight and

four o’clock in the morning.The type of aircraft

predominantly used in flight operations at the hub

is the Boeing 757-SF. Over the course of the past

several years, DHL has invested EUR 1.3 billion in

34 state-of-the-art B757-SF aircraft, thus assuming

responsibility for greater environmental protection

in the international express business (see page 20).

In addition to the Boeing 757-SF planes, DHL uses

several Airbus A 300B4-200F, McDonnell Douglas

MD11F and Antonov 26 and 12 aircraft.

The DHL flights and fleetFour-phase transition

To ensure sufficient preparation time, the transfer to

Leipzig/Halle took place in four phases (see diagram).

DHL began test operations in the summer of 2007 after

completion of the hub’s core structural and technical

elements. During this phase, all technical equipment was

carefully tested to eliminate faults and work out any

start-up problems right at the outset. At the same time,

the employees practiced “normal operations” with 70,000

test parcels. All tests were successfully completed after

three months, enabling the distribution center to initiate

trial operations in fall 2007. Flight operations were

increased in stages. In late October 2007, DHL shifted

approximately 20 aircraft from the Cologne/Bonn

airport to Leipzig/Halle. These planes were joined by 30

more from Brussels at the end of March 2008. The

volume of shipments handled increased dramatically

with the number of incoming and outgoing flights. While

a mere 500 or so tonnes of express items were trans-

shipped each night in early 2008, by September 2008 that

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Rapid development – The hub from the start of construction to the grand opening

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volume had risen to some 1,500 tonnes. This figure is

expected to climb to 2,000 tonnes by 2012. Nearly 60

DHL machines take off and land every night at the hub.

On a whole, the transfer to Leipzig/Halle clearly involved

more than just the expansion of an existing logistics

center and was no everyday task for DHL. Special

challenges included the installation of the sorting facility

as well as the planning and coordination of the indivi-

dual workflow processes. DHL was also faced with having

to train large numbers of new personnel. In three years’

time, 2,000 employees were qualified for their respective

tasks at the hub.

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THE HUB IN ACTION

At the hub in Leipzig/Halle, each “gear wheel” meshes with the next like

clockwork to guarantee that processes flow smoothly each night.This high-

precision work is based on a combination of state-of-the-art technology,

capable employees and excellent organization.The most important link in

the chain is the warehouse with its sorting facility – the largest of its kind in

Germany.

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Main sorter: parcels pass through

the sorting line on the upper

floor

Separate sorting of documents

in the Flyer Sorter: bags of

documents are scanned and

then emptied

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apron

Containers with items are pulled

into the warehouse

“Offloading”: parcels are fed into

the sorting facility

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with their labels facing upwards

Parcels and documents are stowed in

containers according to destination ...

... and loaded into waiting freight planes for

onward transport to every corner of the globe

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An overview of the hub’s nightlifeThe hub operates at full power each night. Up to 1,500 tonnes of parcels and

documents are delivered, re-sorted and transshipped within a few hours’ time.

In these rush-hour conditions, DHL employees must keep track of the aircraft

landing every several minutes, the hundreds of containers being emptied in

the warehouse and of the items passing through the huge sorting facility.

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Documents are sorted separately

Documents (“flyers”) are sorted separately in the

Flyer Sorter (see ). After sorting, the documents

automatically land in red bags marked with the

appropriate destination information. These are

then conveyed to the Bagload Area (see ). The

fully automatic Flyer Sorter sorts documents for

500 destinations worldwide and is capable of

handling some 36,000 items per hour.

Newly sorted and ready to take off again

After passing through the final stretch of conveyor

belt in the sorting facility, the parcels and red

document bags are sent down yellow slides into the

Reload Area (see ). Like pup tents, the containers

for the various destinations are waiting there to be

loaded. A final control scan is performed on the

home stretch to confirm the intended destination

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technical features: Light barriers, a cascading

arrangement of conveyor belts and small “parking

maneuvers” prevent the parcels from bumping into

one another. This “gentle” sorting procedure protects

against damages. What is more, DHL had a pull-out

conveyor belt extension manufactured and patented

especially for the hub. To avoid lifting parcels

weighing up to 31 kilograms, employees can pull the

red telescoping conveyor belts into the containers

and load the parcels there.

From the apron to the hub

When an aircraft lands at the Leipzig/Halle airport,

the approximately 150,000 items handled at the hub

each night begin a rapid journey through several

stations. A mobile hoisting platform lifts the contai-

ners filled with items out of the machine and places

them onto small trailers. These trailers are then

driven to the sorting center where employees push

containers weighing up to seven tonnes over raised

steel floors with imbedded rollers to the Offload

Area (see ) on the ground floor. Here items that

can be automatically sorted are separated from those

that cannot be fed into the sorting system, such as

hazardous goods as well as bulky and heavy items.

A forklift carries these to the adjacent Reload Area

where employees load the sorted items for onward

transport.

Like a roller-coaster ride

All of the sortable items (see ) are carried to the

Reload Area on conveyer belts. They are first

scanned in the Offload Area,

automatically separated

into parcels and

documents and then

transported to the upper

floor of the warehouse on

the four main conveyor

belts. The initial scanning

procedure programs the

route which each individual

item will follow through the maze

of conveyors in the distribution

center. The electronically guided

parcels and documents are sent on the

shortest path through the sorting streets to

their destination containers. On average, this

process takes less than seven minutes per item.

The sorting process has a number of impressive

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High-performance sorting facility

Every sortable item that arrives at the Leipzig/Halle hub passes through the warehouse’s fully

automated sorting facility, which minimizes sorting errors and is capable of handling approxi-

mately 100,000 parcels and documents per hour.The heart of the system consists of four sorting

belts running one on top of the other and extending a total length of 6.5 kilometers through the

distribution center.

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aircraft are rolling containers for packages destined

anywhere within a radius of 300 kilometers. These

will be transported to their destinations by truck or

train.

Interim stops at customs and the parcel clinic

In addition to unloading, sorting and reloading, the

hub has two processes reserved expressly for items

requiring special treatment. One is for items that

must clear customs. The appropriately pre-marked

items are sorted out and checked individually by

customs inspectors on site based on the customs

documents provided. Once Customs (see ) has

approved an item for import and forwarding, it is

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and read the information necessary for subsequent

shipment tracking into the DHL data processing

system. Much like the offload procedure, the

containers filled with parcels and document bags

are hoisted onto trailers outside of the warehouse

building and driven to the waiting freight planes. To

ensure optimum loading, an in-house hub team

carefully positions each container in the aircraft

based on weight. Behind the Reload Areas for the

returned to the shelf and the lamp below it set to

green. This signals to the workers that the item is

now ready to be scanned in again and returned to

the sorting line. A “Hospital” ( ) area has also

been set up in the hub where damaged parcels or

documents are sent for treatment. After undergoing

repairs, the items are returned to the normal sorting

process.

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The new DHL airfreight hub is a prime example of how sustainability goalscan be brought into harmony with the demands of economically efficientoperation. By using modern technologies such as solar cells and a cogen-eration unit for combined heat and power, the Leipzig/Halle hub isfocusing on the use of renewable energies as well as enhancing energyefficiency in buildings and systems. In Leipzig/Halle, Deutsche Post WorldNet has thus already met its main voluntary goal of improving the company’s CO2 efficiency by 30 percent by 2020 as set forth in itsGoGreen climate protection program.

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hub with the new adjacent freight train station will

play a key role in this concept. This will optimize rail

connections to the Frankfurt am Main airport and

other destinations as well as increase the shifting of

freight traffic from the road to the rails.

Modern technology protects the environment

The airfreight hub is the first Deutsche Post World

Net facility able to meet its needs for electricity,

heating and cooling energy for the most part self-

sufficiently. A state-of-the-art cogeneration unit

with a highly efficient block heat and power plant

has been installed for this purpose and can be

operated in tandem with the public power grid or as

a stand-alone solution, guaranteeing that the hub

has power even when the public power supply

system goes down. The block heat and power plant

runs on natural gas. In addition to power generation,

the system is also used to produce heat and cooling,

e.g. for heating the operating facility in winter and

Economy and ecology go hand in hand

The technical infrastructure at the Leipzig/Halle hub

acts as a bridge between high service quality and

sustainable operations. DHL regards economic

success and socio-ecological responsibility as two

sides of the same coin. Environmentally compatible

operations are an important standard for DHL and

have become essential to ensuring business success.

Fast and environmentally friendly:

No contradiction

From a strategic viewpoint, the hub’s location at the

crossroads of Europe guarantees heightened trans-

port efficiency. The usage of combined transport

also conserves energy resources. When selecting a

mode of transport for rapid moving of goods and

documents, DHL always chooses the carrier that

satisfies customers’ quality demands while at the

same time generating the lowest costs and producing

the least emissions. The coupling of the airfreight

SUSTAINABILITY

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route. The primary goal is making optimum use of

the transport room in the aircraft. Empty flights or

half loads would be extremely inefficient and eco-

logically unsound, as would short-distance flights.

DHL therefore transports items for delivery within a

radius of up to 300 kilometers around Leipzig/Halle

by road. In the mid-term, the goal is to cover dis-

tances of up to 600 kilometers by rail – including but

not limited to the Frankfurt am Main - Leipzig/Halle

connection.

Less aircraft noise and lower CO2 emissions

The aircraft in most frequent use at Leipzig/Halle is

the Boeing 757-SF. This plane already meets EU

noise protection standards that will not go into

effect until several years from now. It is 77 percent

quieter than its predecessor, the Boeing 727, can

transport 6,000 additional kilograms in weight and

uses some 20 percent less fuel per tonne of freight.

As a result, the CO2 emissions per flight are signi-

ficantly lower. At night, the DHL Express freight

aircraft must follow more wide-ranging route than

during the day and fly at lower speeds. The

Leipzig/Halle airport is responsible for passive noise

protection. The concept implemented – with

cooling the storage rooms in summer. Another of

the airfreight hub’s important environmental

protection features is its photovoltaic system.

Approximately 1,000 square meters of the warehouse

roof have been covered with solar cells that generate

electricity from the sun’s energy. This electricity is

fed into the public grid, and DHL receives energy

credits pursuant to the German Renewable Energies

Act. As compared to conventional technologies, the

cogeneration system and solar cells save approximately

3,000 tonnes of CO2 from being released into the

atmosphere each year. But it doesn’t stop there. The

environmentally friendly supply system at the

Leipzig/Halle facility includes two underground

cisterns with the capacity to collect around 3,000

cubic meters of rainwater each year. This water is

then used instead of drinking water to wash the

DHL aircraft.

Not a single flight too many

On an operative level, DHL has initiated effective

measures to keep the stress resulting from daily

flight operations as low as possible for humans and

the environment. For example, the company always

chooses the type of plane best suited for a particular

DHL regards itself as a part of the Leipzig/Halle

region. It therefore seeks to not only benefit from

the location’s strengths, but to actively boost to the

region’s prosperity and appeal.

soundproofed windows, ventilators and other noise-

insulating precautions for nearby residents – goes

far beyond the standards currently typical in Germany.

In addition, the noise-control zone around the hub

is more than twice as large a required by law. The

entire package of measures is far ahead of national

and European regulations for protection against

aircraft noise.

Social responsibility and being a good

neighbor

As a key economic player in the Leipzig/Halle

region, DHL attaches great importance to being a

good neighbor to the people in the catchment area

around the hub. The company has therefore

concluded several long-term agreements to assume

local responsibility in the fields of culture, social

affairs and sports. One important part of DHL’s

social commitment is seeking to provide young

people with incentives to remain in the region. As an

environmentally friendly and socially responsible

company, DHL encourages use of the local public

transport system. DHL hub employees can travel to

and from work with a job ticket for this system.

What’s more, DHL covers all the costs – totaling

over EUR 100,000 per year. Employees are delighted

by the offer, as the ticket is also valid on weekends

and can be used together with family members.A green city: Johannapark in Leipzig (the City High-Rise building and the tower of city hall are visible in the background).

With the official opening of the hub in May 2008, Deutsche Post World Net sent a powerful

message of new beginning – to its corporate subsidiary DHL, which can expect to rise to all

new heights on the global express market as a result, and to its customers, who benefit from

the eastern German logistics facility in a variety of ways. In addition, experts predict that the

large-scale investment in the Leipzig/Halle site will provide strong impulses for the area’s

overall economic development – creating a brighter future for people from the region.

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AeroLogic founded by DHL and Lufthansa Cargo in 2007

is therefore planning to launch flight operations from

Leipzig/Halle in 2009. AeroLogic will transport both

express and freight goods between Europe, Asia and

America. It is expected to create an additional 1,000 jobs

at the Leipzig/Halle airport.

More than just a business location

The creation of the European hub has significantly

enhanced the appeal of the Leipzig/Halle region for

manufacturing and service companies. The number of

companies from all industries settling around the new

hub has been rising steadily since 2005. In addition to the

“hub factor,” they are attracted by the proximity to the

Attracting other businesses with the hub

The future has long since begun at the hub in Leipzig/

Halle. Thanks to eastward expansion of the EU, the

Leipzig/Halle region has become the epicenter of the

European business community. In addition to seamless

connections to road, air and rail transport, 24-hour

operations and comprehensive night-flight authorization

create the ideal basis for enabling the trimodal Leipzig/

Halle hub to further strengthen the freight express

business with growth markets in Eastern Europe and

Asia. The hub furthermore has sufficient capacity for

increased volumes of freight in the future. As a result, the

Leipzig/Halle airport is growing steadily in importance as

an international logistics hub. The joint venture

SPRINGBOARD TO SUCCESS

Leipzig Exhibition Centre, the high quality of life in the

region and the large market of some seven million people

who live in the extended catchment area around Leipzig/

Halle. They benefit personally from the creation of the

hub – be it as successful applicants who have found a new

job at the hub or simply because the Leipzig/Halle region

can offer its residents a whole new range of opportunities

thanks to its increased appeal. In keeping with the motto

“at home in the world, committed to the region,” DHL

attaches great importance to making the hub successful

together with and as a good neighbor to the people

around it.

Peter Kiebler

was one of the first to apply to

the hub. Previously, he had

spent a year and a half without

permanent employment.As

head of the mechanical work-

shop, he ensures that the

parcel conveyor bands in the

warehouse stay in constant

motion.

Gerd Richter

is responsible for shift planning at the hub. He

also makes sure that the equipment storehouse

is always stocked with work clothing, telephones,

scanners and other technical devices.

Matthias Forst

and his 30 colleagues are the hub’s

firefighters. The highly motivated team

must locate malfunctions within three

minutes.Working at the world’s only DHL

fire department means guaranteeing safe

operations 24 hours a day.

Michael Mehnert

is well acquainted with the

Customs/Hospital area of the hub.

This is where items for free

circulation within the EU must be

cleared by customs inspectors.

Until clearance, they must remain

on the shelves.

Claudia Langanke

works in the warehouse. She receives the road

freight, packs and unloads containers and

prepares the night shift.

Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften, an academy of science

(above), Neue Messe Leipzig, an exhibition center (below): the

Saxon metropolis and the surrounding area benefit from the close

partnership between business and research.

Philipp Hengst and Klaudia Mossakowski

work as ramp agents at the hub. Part of the their

job is loading and unloading the freight planes.