Upgraded transport: Highways for investors
Leipzig began flourishing 850 years ago at the crossroads of two great continental trade routes, the east–west Via Regia and the north–south Via Imperii. And Leipzig’s growth was shaped by the flows of goods, people and ideas intersecting there. Nowadays, in the early twenty-first century, far-sightedly improved roads, railways and air routes are tapping the enormous potential which Leipzig can mobilize within the expanded European Union. Efficient transport links and the seamless networking of individual modes of transport are among the key factors behind the thriving economic development of the entire region.
Milestones of infrastructure development in and around Leipzig
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- Mitteldeutsche Flughafen AG (Central German Airports), Wirtschaftsförderung Sachsen GmbH (Saxony Trade & Invest Corporation) and Investitions- und Marketinggesellschaft Sachsen-Anhalt mbH sign an extensive cooperation agreement to market ‘airea – The Airport Region in Central Germany’ nationally and internationally as a joint economic area and to harness its potential to attract investors
- Mytheresa – the leading e-commerce platform for designer luxury fashion – announces it will open a new logistics hub at the airport with up to 1,000 new jobs from mid-2023
- The volume of freight handled at Leipzig/Halle Airport in 2021 rises by 15 per cent from around 1.3 to almost 1.6 million tonnes – a new record
- Leipzig/Halle Airport: Dynamic growth in air freight handling – up by 8 per cent between January and October
- The airport plans to invest hundreds of millions of euros in new aprons as well as the construction of logistics and office buildings
- Amazon opens its first European regional air cargo centre at Leipzig/ Halle Airport (November)
- Leipzig/Halle Airport decides to invest €500 million in new aprons as well as logistics and office buildings in the north and south zones of the airport
- Volga-Dnepr Group and Leipzig/ Halle Airport sign memorandum of understanding to build a long-term partnership, creating up to 500 new jobs
- When the timetables change in December 2019, the MDV Central German Transport Association will expand northwards to Dessau and Lutherstadt Wittenberg
- Deutsche Bahn’s largest construction project in Leipzig is the rebuilding of three bridges over the Luppe, Weisse Elster and Nahle in northwest Leipzig. Construction over a total length of 1.9 kilometres will continue until spring 2022 while keeping traffic moving. The route has a speed limit of 120 km/h.
- Decision taken to site Germany’s new Federal Highway Administration in Leipzig
- New MDV seasonal bus routes for ‘hop-on, hop-off’ travel around Leipzig New Lakeland south of the city
- New coach station is opened on the east side of Leipzig Central Station
- New local railway stations built at Essener Strasse and Mockauer Strasse without halting train services