Logistics. Thuringia – Germany’S Top Location for Logistics Enterprises

Logistics. Thuringia – Germany’s top location for logistics enterprises.

1,600 km Ever rising costs for transport and storage are a constant challenge for logistics businesses. Moreover, the customers expect fast and reliable 3 h 800 km delivery. On these points, Thuringia can score with some convincing locational advantages: 1 –2 h 24 h 10 h

The central location in both Germany and Europe plus a highly efficient 20 h infrastructure make the state a top location for logistics. All of Europe’s major economic centers can be reached from Thuringia within a very 48 h short time. Thanks also to a highly skilled and qualified workforce, logistics firms in Thuringia achieve excellent cut-off times and can reliably serve industry with just-in-time delivery.

Thuringia’s logistics industry at a glance: > About 650 logistics companies* > More than 25,000 employees* Seize the opportunities that our > Transport to all markets of Europe within a very short time region offers. > More than 280 million consumers within a radius of 500 miles We provide full-service support for > Ultra-modern road network with 5 autobahns any investment project – from site > Highest-density railway network in Europe search to project implementation and > Express airfreight shipment to the whole of Europe within 3 hours future expansions. Please contact us. > Leading logistics service providers, including DHL, DB Schenker, Kühne + Nagel, BLG LOGISTICS, Dachser, and Fiege www.invest-in-thuringia.de/en/

*Source: In-house calculations based on LEG-UTD, 2019 industries-technologies/logistics/ Optimum transport systems integration. Rising fuel costs mean, among other things, that combined road & rail transport is playing an ever increasing role. Thuringia, with its “well-connected” industrial areas and specialist personnel, is well prepared for this trend.

State-of-the-art logistics centers International Shipment

Freight Hub Erfurt (GVZ) With DHL, DPD, UPS, TNT and Hermes Covering an area of approx. 340 hectares, all major partners are represented on the Freight Hub Erfurt (GVZ) is one of Ger- the parcel and postal shipment. The many’s biggest and most up-to-date freight parcel, express and logistics services hubs. Located just outside Erfurt, it is di- connect companies quick and directly rectly connected to the A4 and A71 auto- with their customers. bahns. A railway terminal ensures rapid goods handling. At present, over 60 com- Dedicated logistics specialists panies have facilities at the GVZ, including the logistics centers of IKEA, MediaMarkt/ In Thuringia, there are many highly Saturn and Zalando. motivated and highly qualified people working in logistics. Businesses offer International Logistics Center Erfurt traineeships in all relevant vocational At the new International Logistics Center skills, while both private and state “Thuringia is characterized Erfurt (ILZ), business enterprises are set- universities provide courses at degree by the good transport con- ting up operations on the 70-hectare site level in all aspects of logistics. nections, the efficient infra- for their Europe-wide freight-handling structure and the central activities. For example Panasonic‘s logis- The study courses available include: location in Germany and as tics operations are managed from here at > Erfurt University of Applied Sciences: such represents an optimal 60,000 m². And with the wine specialist Industrial Engineer (B. Eng.) location for Amazon. With our Mack&Schühle respectively its logistics in Traffic, Transport and Logistics, newly opened distribution partner Berger Contract Logistics the long- and in Railway Operations. center in Erfurt, we can better est wine board in Germany has opened up Master studies in Material Flows meet the growing customer there. Access directly to the A71 autobahn, and Logistics demand and also offer more and the airport and GVZ Thuringia can be (M. Eng.) as well as in Traffic flexible delivery options for reached in 10 minutes. and Transport (M. Sc.) customers in the region. It is > University of Cooperative Education important to us to be a good Logistics Network Thuringia in Gera: Business Administration, neighbor in every respect, Specialization: Logistics (B.A.) and close and good cooper- Enterprises working in business, education > IUBH Dual Studies, Erfurt: Economics ation with regional partners and research have joined forces to create with Logistics Management (B.A.) such as LEG Thüringen plays the Logistics Network Thuringia. The Net- > Vocational School for Construction, an important role in achiev- work pools skills and abilities in marketing, Economy and Transport in Gotha: ing that goal.” staff training and retention, innovation, co- State Certified Logistics Thomas Schenk, Site Manager operation and logistics services. Its goal is Specialist Amazon Distribution Center in Erfurt to foster the further development of an in- novative, future-fit logistics site. www.logistik-netzwerk-thueringen.de Shortest transport connections guaranteed. Logistics and trading companies generally prefer the fast connections to the markets of Europe by road, rail or air. Thanks to its excellent traffic and transport infrastructure, Thuringia is able to guarantee time-saving goods handling.

Modern road network Dense railway network

In recent years, companies such as BLG LOGISTICS, Rhenus One of Europe’s most important railway connections for pas- or Axthelm + Zufall have opened new distribution centers in senger and freight traffic - the Paris – Frankfurt am Main – Thuringia, especially alongside the five autobahns. This is just Berlin – Warsaw – Moscow route - runs through Thuringia. one indicator of how important the state has become as a hub Relative to its size and population, Thuringia has the densest of transport between Eastern and Western Europe. rail network in Europe, with around 1,550 kilometres of track currently in service. Autobahns: > A4 Frankfurt – Dresden Erfurt - A future ICE rail hub > A9 Berlin – Munich Since 2017, Erfurt Central Station serves as a hub for ICE high- > A38 Göttingen – Halle/Leipzig speed rail services in all directions. Berlin can be reached in > A71 Erfurt – Stuttgart 1:45 hours and Dresden in 1:55 hours. Since finalization of the > A73 Erfurt – Nuremberg Erfurt-Nuremberg link, the travel time to Munich is 2:15 hours. Frankfurt/Main can be reached in 2:10 hours. Express lines Express airfreight with new schedules can also connect the city regions with all parts of the state, benefiting the whole of Thuringia. Erfurt-Weimar Airport serves as a hub for the international airfreight business. TNT Express handles shipments for onward transport by air or truck from or to the whole of Lower Saxony Germany at its self-owned Air and Road Hub. Since May

Göttingen 2008, TNT Express has had its own customs clearance Halle facility in Erfurt. DB Schenker offers daily airfreight Kassel A connections to key destinations worldwide. Saxony-Anhalt www.flughafen-erfurt-weimar.de/en THURINGIA Halle/Leipzig Halle

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Bavaria Thuringia: where success is made.

Thuringia offers outstanding opportunities for logistics enterprises to grow and innovate particularly in the online Selected companies mail order, automotive supply or food industry, as illus- Amazon Deutschland Transport, Erfurt trated by the many companies who have expanded AXTHELM + ZUFALL Internationale or relocated here. Spedition, Nohra Aldi, Nohra Berger Contract Logistics, Erfurt KNV Zeitfracht GmbH Zalando BLG LOGISTICS GROUP, In Erfurt-Mittelhausen, book wholesal- Jointly with the investor Goodman, Eisenach, Erfurt er KNV Logistik GmbH has built one of Zalando chose Erfurt as the location Dachser, Ichtershausen the biggest media logistic centers in Eu- for its first own logistics center. After a Deutsche Post, Erfurt, Nohra, Gera, rope at a cost of € 150 million. At present, construction time of only ten months, Suhl i. a. KNV supplies more than 7,000 booksell- test operation started in August 2012. Fiege Mega Center Erfurt, Apfelstädt ers in over 2,200 locations in Germany, With 120,000 square metres of stock Geis Eurocargo, Ohrdruf and Schleiz Austria, Switzerland and South Tyrol. The space, the center is the biggest goods HAVI Logistics, Central Germany product range comprises 510,000 books, warehouse for shoes and fashion any- logistics center, Lederhose e-books, DVDs, audio media and oth- where in Europe. Hermes Fulfilment, Ohrdruf logistics er bookshop items, making the compa- center ny one of the most important partners for XXXLutz LDZ Logistische Dienstleistungszentren the online book trade. The furniture retailer XXXLutz from Aus- Thüringen, Straußfurt tria has selected the industrial park Er- LIDL, Gera logistics center Schenker Deutschland furter Kreuz as the location for its new e- NORMA Logistikzentrum Mitteldeutsch- Germany’s leading provider of integrat- commerce center. On the approximately land, Erfurt ed supply chain management services 25 hectare plot a state-of-the-art ware- Raben Trans European, Eisenach and Korbußen operates a logistics terminal on its alto- house as well as office and training facil- Erfurt logistics center gether 38,500 square meter site at the ities are planned. In the final expansion redcoon Logistics, “Erfurter Kreuz” autobahn junction, from phase, up to 400 new jobs will be creat- REWE MARKT, Neudietendorf logistics center where it distributes general cargo as ed to ensure a quick and reliable deliv- Rhenus, Eisenach and Gotha well as part and full truckloads to all ar- ery of products to its online customers. eas of Europe. With its robust business The geographic location of the compa- Swiss Post Solutions, Waltershausen branch model, DB Schenker is well equipped to ny’s new central site is first-rate: at the UPS United Parcel Service Deutschland, meet the demands of its customers on heart of Germany with very good trans- Gera and Ichtershausen the increasingly integrating international port infrastructure and excellent con- markets and the growth in goods flows. nection to the major logistics partners.

Your LEG Service State Development Corporation of Thuringia (LEG Thüringen) Our consulting services are Dept. Investment, International Phone +49 361 5603-450 free. Simply set an appointment Business and Cluster Promotion Fax +49 361 5603-328 with our experienced investor Mainzerhofstrasse 12 [email protected] service team. 99084 Erfurt/Germany www.invest-in-thuringia.de/en

Picture Credits: LEG Thüringen, Fotograf Thomas Abé und Andreas Hultsch; Raben; Knöppel/DUSS; Tobias Conrad; KNV Logistik GmbH, Amazon Version 03/2020