Leipzig/Halle Airport
Leipzig/Halle Airport has a wide range of outstanding advantages:
- Two separate 3,600m runways for worldwide non-stop services with no payload restrictions
- Optimum flexibility thanks to 24-hour operation for cargo flights
- Ample capacity with no slot restrictions
- Excellent transport links (road, rail and air)
- Daily rail freight services to major European ports
- Direct passenger connections to international hubs and other European cities
- Vacant development plots
DHL’s biggest air freight hub continues to grow
Since 2008, DHL has used Leipzig/Halle Airport as its European hub with some 60 flights landing daily. Investments to expand its hub totalling €230 million have increased its capacity by around 50 per cent to 150,000 express consignments per hour. All in all, DHL currently employs over 6,000 people there. Including the costs of expansion, DHL Express has invested a total of €655 million in its air freight hub in Leipzig.
Growth of freight and mail
Sources: Statistical Office of the city of Leipzig, Leipzig/Halle Airport
One of Europe’s top cargo airports
One of Europe’s top cargo airports In 2021, 1.6 million tonnes of air freight was recorded at Leipzig/Halle Airport. This makes it the second-largest cargo airport in Germany. Being Europe’s third-largest freight hub and a dynamically growing transhipment centre for all kinds of air cargo, Leipzig/Halle Airport is a central element of Germany’s air traffic infrastructure and the key driver of the economic region of central Germany with its major logistics industry.
Safe transport routes for pharmaceuticals
Portground GmbH, a subsidiary of Mitteldeutsche Flughafen AG, has CEIV pharmaceutical certification. This seal of quality from the airline umbrella organization IATA confirms the safe transport of sensitive pharmaceutical cargo. It can thus handle temperatureand time-critical pharmaceutical shipments like vaccines and medicines 24/7.
Planned expansion: Ideal conditions for investors
There’s still plenty of land available at and around Leipzig/Halle Airport, offering ideal conditions for businesses operating in aviation and logistics.
World Cargo Center: Networked with the global economy
- Ideal conditions for logistics contractors
- Direct access to the apron
- Refrigeration unit for the parallel storage of pharmaceutical items, perishable goods, and temperature-sensitive articles
- 35,325 square meters in size
- Annual handling capacity of 200,000 tonnes
- 38 loading bays
- Parking for 171 lorries
- 3,400 square meters of office space directly connected to the warehouse
Statistics
year | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | |
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Starts and landings | 76,104 | 64,483 | 78,980 | 79,218 | 69,815 | 64,492 | |
Passengers in million | 0.66 | 0,53 | 2.6 | 2.5 | 2.3 | 2.2 | |
Air freight in tonnes | 1,591,612 | 1,383,467 | 1,238,342 | 1,221,422 | 1,138,368 | 1,052,372 |
Sources: Statistical Office of the city of Leipzig, Leipzig/Halle Airport