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Owing to a rapid growth of transport volumes and an increasing use of web-based technologies (e-logistics, telematics), logistics is one of the most promising sectors for the future.
North Leipzig is ideal for the seamless integration of different modes of transport thanks to the presence of:
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GVZ Freight Dispatch Centre
Ideal location for businesses in manufacturing, services, wholesale/retail and logistics
- provides a logistics hub for all local transport providers or is located in the immediate vicinity of transport locations
- has an efficient railway terminal for the combined freight transport system
- has its own industrial railway connection for 'just-in-sequence' concepts, e.g. for the Porsche plant
- is located in the immediate neighbourhood of an airport with an increasing freight volume
- Firms already present include Prosche, Schenker, Wincanton Fenthols, K+P Logistik
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DHL's new logistics hub at Leipzig/Halle Airport:
- Logistics giant DHL is investing €300 million to relocate its European cargo hub to Leipzig in 2008. This will result in 3,500 new jobs at DHL as well as another 7,000 jobs among suppliers and contractors by 2012.
- Operating around the clock, up to 34,000 international cargo flights will be possible annually.
- Through its joint venture with Lufthansa Cargo, freight services to Asia and the USA are now available.
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Internet retailer amazon builds a new mail-order centre:
- In autumn 2006, amazon, the world's largest internet retailer, completed its biggest mail-order centre in Germany which is 70,000 square metres in size and at peak times employs up to 1,000 people.
- Planning permission for this previously council-owned site was awarded in just 16 days.
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