LOgISTICS in the Berlin-Brandenburg Capital Region
THE GERMAN CAPITAL REGION MORE VALUE FOR YOUR INVESTMENT Helsinki 1.420 km Oslo Stockholm 1.110km 1.100 km Tallinn Moscow 1.270 km 1.750 km
Dublin Copenhagen Riga 1.485 km 460 km 980 km Your Advantages in Berlin-Brandenburg Vilnius 1.000 km Minsk London 1.070 km 1.020 km Amsterdam 550 km Warsaw Brussels 620 km 770 km ■ Prague Kiev Central location in European traffi c fl ow Paris 360 km 1.660 km ■ Close to Central and Eastern European emerging markets 1.090 km Vienna ■ 6 million consumers in Berlin-Brandenburg Bern 670 km Budapest Bucharest 900 km 880 km 1.340 km ■ 100 million potential clients available in an 8-hour truck drive ■ Berlin Brandenburg International Airport (BBI) offers excellent air Madrid Istanbul Szczecin 2.193 km freight perspectives Lisbon 2.490 km Rom (Stettin) 2.890 km 1.500 km ■ Wide-area industrial locations connected to highways with ! Athens Hamburg operating permission available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week 2.650 km Rostock ■ Excellent transportation and telecommunication infrastructure ■ Leading location for Telematics (Electronic Data Transmission) ■ Up to 50 % in investment support for the logistic industry Pritzwalk Schwedt ■ Highly qualifi ed employees, low labor costs ■ Effi cient and unbureaucratic authorization procedures ■ Universities and Universities of Applied Sciences renowned for ! ! Logistics and IT professorships Wittenberge gross wages and salaries per employee (germany) ■ Close to political decision makers and organizations in trade, hotel, restaurant industry, and traffi c Eberswalde in 2006 (Euro)
Qualified Employees – Berlin Kietz/Küstrin Flexible and Competitive In the Berlin-Brandenburg region, logistic companies will fi nd highly Rathenow qualifi ed and motivated employees. Due to 3 years of professional training in logistic careers, from specialized computing experts to ! warehouse clerks, high quality work is guaranteed. In the region, Potsdam Warszawa (Warsaw) ! 150,000 employees are working in the logistic industry. Inspite of the Brandenburg a. d. H. ! 22.414 Bavaria 24.896 Hesse 23.153 North Rhine-Westphalia North 23.153 22.270 Baden-Württemberg 26.783 Hamburg 20.532 Berlin above-average qualifi cations of the employees, the regional wages 18.239 Brandenburg Frankfurt (Oder) Sources: LDS, VGR, LASA, 2006 and salaries are about 30 percent under those of comparable areas. ! Flexible working hours and rates, 40 hour working week, and a minimal Costs of land for building in selected Magdeburg amount of public holidays make the region a cost saving industrial site. Hanover Eisenhüttenstadt german Federal States in 2005 (Euro/m2) ! The companies Berlin Partner GmbH and ZukunftsAgentur Branden- burg GmbH (Brandenburg Economic Development Board) support with a large range of services, from recruiting to advanced training of ! new employees. Leipzig Frankfurt/Main Guben/Gubin Munich Cottbus Efficient Connections – Wroclaw (Breslau) Attractive Prices Forst
Berlin-Brandenburg offers a strategically ideal location for a Europe- wide distribution due to its proximity to German seaports and the avail- Schwarzheide ability of wide-area industrial real estate. The sites are located next to highways and available at favorable prices. Germany’s capital region is characterized by its excellent connections in all directions. The ideally Berlin Bavaria Hamburg
developed trans-European network of rails, roads, aviation and inland Brandenburg water transportation all meet here. Investment support is available up 50,51 115,47 115,47 114,72 Hesse 114,72 97,60 North Rhine-Westphalia 156,46 Baden-Württemberg 156,96 383,33 to 50 % of costs within general guidelines. Dresden Source: Federal Statistical Offi ce Germany, 2006 Praha (Prag)