Frankfurt Airport - Frankfurt airport expansion for air freight. Der is one of the main centers of global logistics in Europe. The companies that have settled in the Cargo City South, where it built its own terminals for cargo handling read like a "who's who" of global logistics.
In June of this year, where the foundation stone for a new cargo service center of Lufthansa Cargo AG was established that the cargo-handling areas Lufthansa - will expand by one third - about 70,000 square feet in the hall CargoCity north of the airport. At the same time opens up the largest cargo airline at Frankfurt airport, which changes here yearly 1.5 million tons of cargo, new customers among carriers and freight specialists operating in the south of the airport.
Look at the Frankfurt Airport Cargo City Süd - Europe is the most important hub for air cargo with this investment decision, the system partner Lufthansa, Fraport AG Frankfurt Airport expanded its position as Europe's most important air cargo hub continues. More than that: half of all air cargo is handled by 20 airports worldwide, and in that order, occupied the airport Frankfurt
7th place, after the cargo specialists Memphis and Anchorage as well as the Asian giant Hong Kong, Shanghai, Seoul and Tokyo.
Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Bender, Chairman of Fraport AG, Frankfurt International air transport is one of the key drivers for globalization. He is gaining speed with technological innovation and ever shorter renewal cycles of consumer goods market significance. Already, 40 percent of cross-border transport will be worldwide, measured by value of goods flown. The triumph of global supply chains, will replace the global division of labor, the traditional assembly line production at a fixed location, will increase the global mobility of intermediate goods and consumption goods.
Their distribution paths are concentrated even more than in passenger traffic at major hubs, which must have perfect handling processes in the actual airport operations also offer a hochdisponible intermodal network with other transport modes.
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The Frankfurt airport is also setting international standards. His ten minute rail connection to the city at all major airports are unequaled in the world. The connection to the road traffic on European highways cross stands at the Frankfurt not yield.
Airport Frankfurt is setting international standards for networking
This fall, the Sprinter cargo traffic by rail to the airport Leipzig opens. Thus the Frankfurt airport can now get a freight station, next to the regional rail traffic and the train station, one of the ten largest in the Deutsche Bahn AG.
With the capacity expansion and due to its location in Europe, in the midst of Europe's largest economy, the largest exporting nation, thanks to its worldwide unique intermodal links and thanks to the reliability and quality of service of all employees at the airport, the airport's position as a top address for the international air cargo transshipment improve.
The importance as a cargo hub will eventually be further distinguished by a House of Logistics and Mobility. In implementation, it will compress the logistics node to a global knowledge pool for global flows of goods.
Here too, the Frankfurt airport sees in direct competition with the world's leading names, what the joint effort of the state of Hesse, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Darmstadt University of Technology, the European Business School (Oestrich-Winkel in the Rheingau region) and the University Frankfurt and the economy should only intensify. The House of Logistics and Mobility probably not the next groundbreaking ceremony at Frankfurt Airport will be but one of paramount importance.
