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In Frankfurt (Oder)/Eisenhüttenstadt Welcome to Frankfurt (Oder) Investment opportunities in the capital region Berlin-Brandenburg – at the interface of the Middle and Eastern European markets Frankfurt (Oder) | 18 March, 2021 Frankfurt (Oder) 2 In the centre of Europe • Positioned at the German-Polish border – the interface of two important economic markets • European economic centres are located inside a 1,500 kilometre radius • Access to 350 million consumers in the EU within 24 hours • Easy access to the emerging markets in Eastern Europe • Located directly at the East-West transport corridor North Sea-Baltic of the TEN-T network • Part of the German Capital Region Berlin-Brandenburg Frankfurt (Oder) 3 European Twin-City – Frankfurt (Oder)/Słubice Cross-border cooperation to the benefit of companies and investors: • Free movement of workers since 2011 and cross-border skilled workers • 14 123 in-commuters [1 070 from Berlin and 1 484 from Poland]1 • 3 400 Polish inhabitants2, 2 205 Polish employees3 and 451 Polish companies in © Willi Wallroth Frankfurt (Oder)4, 353 Polish students5 Region Inhabitants Frankfurt (Oder) & Słubice 80.000 • Education of Polish skilled workers in Frankfurt (Oder) LK Oder-Spree & Märkisch-Oderland 375.000 • Bilingual Kindergartens, schools and a cross-border University Lubuskie 1.000.000 • Cross-border local traffic • Joint district heating system • The European Twin-City has been awarded as “excellent place in the land of ideas” in 2016 1 Source: Statistics of the federal employment office; reference date: 30.06.2020 2 Source: City of Frankfurt (Oder); reference date: 31.12.2018 3 Source: Statistics of the federal employment office; reference date: 30.06.2019 4 Source: City of Frankfurt (Oder); reference date: 31.12.2018 5 Source: European University Viadrina; reference date: 22.11.2020 Frankfurt (Oder) 4 The Regional Center of East Brandenburg Frankfurt (Oder) with its about 58,000 inhabitants is the Regional Center of East Brandenburg and provides a very good infrastructure: • Local Public Transport - bus and tram network in the city and vicinity • Regional Express 1 – every 30 minutes within one hour in the centre of Berlin (Alexanderplatz), 26 minutes to the passenger station Fangschleuse (Tesla Gigafactory) • Modern health infrastructure (Klinikum Frankfurt (Oder) – academic teaching hospital of the Charité Berlin) • Excellent educational institutions (German-Polish offers in Kindergarten and schools, STEM-Excellence-Center academic high school Gauß-Gymnasium, elite school of sports, college of further education OSZ, community college, European University Viadrina) • Affordable housing space available The long term city development strategy aims at combining attractive working and living conditions on one site Frankfurt (Oder) 5 What else! • European twin-city with students from • European University Viadrina with more more than 100 countries than 5,500 students • Researchers from 30 countries and • Leibniz-Institute for high-performance internationally acting companies microelectronics (IHP) International Innovative • Promenade at the river Oder and • Kleist city – place of birth and untouched landscapes creativity of the famous author • International cycling and walking paths • Brandenburg State Orchestra in as well es numerous lakes in the vicinity Frankfurt (Oder) Worth living Worth seeing • 1.5 billion EUR private investments and • Multimodal location with access to the 5,000 created jobs during the last 10 overseas ports years • Located at the main East-West • Germany‘s highest investment support transport route „North Sea-Baltic- corridor“ Enterprise-friendly Connected East Brandenburg 6 Worth living! • Kleist city – place of birth and • Berlin‘s cultural diversity reachable creativity of the famous author within one hour • Brandenburg State Orchestra in Frankfurt (Oder) • St. Mary‘s Church Frankfurt (Oder) • Neuzelle abbey with park • International cycling and walking paths as well as numerous lakes in the vicinity Logistics in East Brandenburg 7 Modern logistics infrastructure > East-West-Axis: motorway Paris-Warsaw > North-South-Axis: motorway/highway Szczecin - Frankfurt (Oder) - Cottbus – Wrocław > Intermodal terminal for road-rail combined transport, directly at the main East-West corridor with daily connection to and from the main seaports > Inland port Eisenhüttenstadt connects the traffic modes road/rail/water to the Middle-European network of waterways > Airport Berlin Brandenburg (BER) Airport BER 45 min > Regional airfield Pohlitz Pozna 1,5 h Szczecin 2,5 h ń Dresden 2,5 h GVZ Frankfurt (Oder) 8 Container Terminal Frankfurt (Oder) – Capacity & Parameter © PCC Intermodal Important basic data • Crane rail and gantry crane spanning 4 handling tracks, plus 2 reach stackers • Efficient railway and road connection at the terminal • Railway connection at the east-west route Warsaw-Berlin • Road connection at the federal highway A 12 / E 30 • Handling of block trains with a length of 600 m, terminal area about 600 m long and 40 m wide Logistics in East Brandenburg 9 Public intermodal terminal Frankfurt (Oder) • The city of Frankfurt (Oder) is owner of the terminal facility • The terminal is operated by PCC Intermodal • Services: » Handling and storage » Door-to-door delivery in East Brandenburg and Poland » Maintenance and repair » Stripping and stuffing » Customs services » Commissioning and handling » Agency services • Container depots: » MSC » UASC » CMA/CGM Financial investment support 10 Investment incentives in Brandenburg Incentive programmes Reducing capital expenditures Reducing operating costs I. II. III. IV. V. VI. Cash incentives Loan programmes State guarantees Labor-related Qualification and Research and and equity capital financial incentives training support development assistance promotion (SME) Source: Germany Trade and Invest Financial investment support 11 Frankfurt (Oder) offers Germany‘s highest investment grants Direct grants to the investment costs: • 40 % for small enterprises • 30 % for medium-sized enterprises 40 % max. • 20 % for large enterprises funding rate 30 % max. Definition small enterprise*: funding rate • Staff headcount < 50 • max. EUR 10 million turnover or balance sheet total Definition medium-sized enterprise*: • Staff headcount < 250 • max. EUR 50 million turnover or max. EUR 43 million balance sheet total * Definition of enterprises‘ size according to the definition of the EU Commission, where associated and partner enterprises are included. Workforce in Frankfurt (Oder) 12 High availability of skilled and motivated workforce Frankfurt (Oder) belongs to the regions with the lowest shortage rate of employees in Germany! High and qualified potential of skilled workforce • More than 15 500 immediately available unemployed persons in East Brandenburg2 • About 25 000 job-seeking persons in East Brandenburg2 • Unemployment rate of 6.9 % in the agency district3 Frankfurt (Oder)2 2 • Unemployment rate in the city of Frankfurt (Oder): 8.5 % Example: In the Unemployment rate in the Voivodship Lubuskie: 6.2 %4 employment agency • district of the city of Riesa, the shortage rate was „Thanks to the skills of our team, we can use our milling machines to drill holes that 81% in 2017. This are much thinner than a human hair. In this respect the expertise of the staff in means: Out of 10 Frankfurt (Oder) is simply excellent.“ vacancies in the region, SME‘s had heavy problems to Helge Puhlmann, Managing Director, Yamaichi Electronics Deutschland staff 8 of these Manufacturing GmbH vacancies. Overview: Shortage rate in SME-typical occupations 2017 Network for the acquisition and qualification of skilled workers according to employment agency districts in Germany1 1 Source: Kompetenzzentrum Fachkräftesicherung (KOFA) des Instituts der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln | Competence Centre for Securing Skilled Personnel of the German Economic Institute Cologne, September 2018 2 Source: Statistics of the employment agency Frankfurt (Oder), Data version February 2021 3 The agency district Frankfurt (Oder) comprises the city of Frankfurt (Oder) as well as the surrounding rural districts Oder-Spree and Märkisch Oderland 4 Source: Statistical office in Zielona Góra, Data version December 2020 Successful enterprises in the region 13 Investments and new companies [Spain] [China] [Japan] [Luxembourg] 1.5 billion Euro Private investments since 2005 [Poland] [Canada] 5000 jobs new provided [France] [Belgium] Investor Center Ostbrandenburg 14 References „The close co-operation with the Investor Center Ostbrandenburg was very helpful to prepare our settlement in Brandenburg.“ Dr. Jacques L‘Ecuuyer, CEO of 5N Plus, Canada „We connected Frankfurt (Oder) with Polish hinterland with German ports, with rotterdam and recently also with Moscow. […] Frankfurt (Oder) fits perfectly into our strategy.“ Dariusz Stefanski, CEO, PCC Intermodal „The support by the city of Frankfurt (Oder) and the State of Brandenburg was excellent“ Shinoshira Koga, President Yamaichi Electronics, Japan „The choice for Eisenhüttenstadt was a strategic decision of Progroup towards the markets in Central and East Europe. The factors of success in Eisenhüttenstadt were the available infrastructure, synergies through close proximity to the ArcelorMittal steelworks, the qualification of workforce and the vicinity to research and development institutions."“ Jürgen Heindl, CEO Progroup AG Investor Center Ostbrandenburg 15 We take care of your business Christopher Nüßlein Our business location services – Managing Director confidential and
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