LOGISTICS in the Berlin-Brandenburg Capital Region THE GERMAN CAPITAL REGION MORE VALUE FOR YOUR INVESTMENT 13 great advantages Berlin and Brandenburg – for your investment right in the heart of Europe Centrally located for European traffic flow Close to Central and Eastern European emerging markets 6 million consumers in the Berlin-Brandenburg region 100 million potential clients located within an 8-hour drive by HGV New Berlin Brandenburg Airport (opening June 2012) offers excellent air freight perspectives Large-scale industrial locations connected to highways Helsinki 1.420 km Oslo with operating permission available 24 hours a day, 1.110 km 7 days a week Tallinn Stockholm 1.270 km Moscow Excellent transportation and telecommunication 1.100 km 1.750 km Riga infrastructure 980 km Copenhagen Vilnius Leading location for telematics Dublin London 460 km 1.000 km 1.020 km Minsk 1.485 km Amsterdam Berlin 1.070 km (Electronic Data Transmission) 550 km Potsdam Warsaw Up to 50% in investment support for the logistics industry 620 km Brussels Highly qualified employees, low labor costs 770 km Prague Kiev Paris 360 km 1.660 km Efficient and unbureaucratic authorization procedures 1.090 km Universities and Universities of Applied Sciences Vienna 670 km Bern Budapest renowned for logistics and IT professorships Bucharest 900 km 880 km 1.340 km Close to political decision makers and organizations Madrid 2.500 km Istanbul 2.193 km Lisbon Rome 2.900 km Gross wages and salaries 1.500 km Athens per employee (Germany) in trade, transport and the 2.650 km hotel and restaurant industry in 2009 (Euro) 30000 Qualified employees – 23.937 23.502 25000 23.127 22.426 28.296 flexible and competitive 26.147 19.775 20000 In the Berlin-Brandenburg region, logistics companies will find 15000 highly qualified and motivated employees. High quality work is 10000 guaranteed thanks to three years of vocational training in logi- 5000 stics; this extends from specialized computing experts to ware- Baden-Württemberg Bavaria Berlin Brandenburg Hamburg Hesse Northrhine-Westphalia house clerks. In the region, 180,000 employees work in the logi- 0 stics industry. Despite employees being qualified above the Source: LDS, VGR, LASA, 2010 average level, regional wages and salaries are around 30 per- cent lower than those of comparable areas. Flexible working hours and rates, a 40-hour working week, combined with few Efficient connections – local public holidays, make the region a cost-saving industrial site. The companies Berlin Partner GmbH and ZukunftsAgentur attractive prices Brandenburg GmbH (Brandenburg Economic Development Board) provide a wide range of support services, from recrui- Berlin-Brandenburg is strategically located and is an ideal site ting to advanced vocational training of new employees. for a Europe-wide distribution due to its proximity to German seaports and the availability of large-scale industrial real estate. The sites are located next to highways and available at Costs of land for building favorable prices. Germany’s capital region is characterized in selected German Federal States in 2009 (Euro/m²) by its excellent connections in all directions. The ideally developed trans-European network of rails, roads, aviation 400 and inland water transportation all meet here. Investment 350 105,86 support is available for up to 50% of costs within general 300 171,13 guidelines. 250 129,29 Hamburg 394,22 200 Berlin Baden-Württemberg 138,02 Bavaria 150 Hesse 117,30 Northrhine-Westphalia 100 Brandenburg 40,59 50 0 Source: Federal Statistical Office Germany, 2010 Logistics Sites Greifswald in Berlin-Brandenburg Hamburg Szczecin Rostock (Stettin) UCKERMARK PRIGNITZ 12 17 OSTPRIGNITZ- RUPPIN 19 BARNIM OBERHAVEL 4 11 HAVELLAND 18 24 MÄRKISCH- ODERLAND 1 BERLIN 5 3 4 5 6 7 8 10 11 13 14 15 16 7 Brandenburg 14 an der Havel 17 Frankfurt 15 1 3 (Oder) 3 Warszawa 2 2 (Warsaw) 4 2 9 POTSDAM 9 13 8 ODER- Magdeburg 10 SPREE Hanover POTSDAM- MITTELMARK 5 DAHME- SPREEWALD TELTOW-FLÄMING Leipzig Frankfurt/Main Munich Cottbus OBER- 1 12 Wrocław SPREEWALD- (Breslau) LAUSITZ SPREE- ELBE-ELSTER NEIßE 6 Dresden 16 Praha (Prague) Independent Cities Cargo Transport Centers Science and Research Institutes District Border Cargo Transport Centers with Inland Port Intermodal Traffic Terminals Federal Highway Berlin-Schönefeld International Logistics Sites Airport, from June 2012 State Highway Airport Berlin Brandenburg Logistics Sites with Railroad Intermodal Traffic Terminals Border Crossing Waterway The network for your success Selected businesses and research institutions in the Berlin-Brandenburg capital region Cargo transport centers Science and Logistics companies research institutes 1 BEHALA, Berlin Airport Berlin Brandenburg Universities www.behala.de www.berlin-airport.de 2 ETTC, Frankfurt (Oder) 1 Brandenburgische Technische Alfred Talke Logistic Services www.ettc.de Universität Cottbus (BTU) www.alfred.talke.com www.tu-cottbus.de 3 Cargo Transport Centre Berlin-Ost, Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte 2 Freienbrink European-University Viadrina Logistikzentrum · www.bsh-group.de www.gvz-berlin.de Frankfurt (Oder) www.euv-frankfurt-o.de Dachser 4 Cargo Transport Centre Berlin-Süd, www.dachser.com Großbeeren 3 Freie Universität Berlin www.gvz-berlin.de www.fu-berlin.de Deutsche Bahn www.bahn.de 5 Cargo Transport Centre Berlin-West, 4 Technische Universität Berlin Wustermark/Brieselang www.logistik.tu-berlin.de Deutsche Post www.gvz-berlin.de www.deutschepost.de Universities of Applied Sciences Dialog Logistics sites www.dialog-logistik.de 5 Berlin Technical University of 1 DPD (Deutscher Paketdienst) BBI Business Park Applied Sciences www.dpd.de www.beuth-hochschule.de Fiege 2 Blankenfelde/Mahlow 6 University of Applied Sciences for www.fiege.de Technology and Economy Berlin (HTW) www.htw-berlin.de Gazeley 3 Brandenburg an der Havel www.gazeley.com 7 Berlin School of Economics and Law www.hwr-berlin.de Gefco 4 Eberswalde 8 www.gefco.de Steinbeis University Berlin www.steinbeis-hochschule.de Kraftverkehr Nagel 5 Eisenhüttenstadt www.nagel-group.com 9 Technische Hochschule Wildau (TH) www.th-wildau.de Kuehne + Nagel 6 Elsterwerda www.kn-portal.com Universities of Cooperative Education Lekkerland 7 Hoppegarten www.lekkerland.de 10 Berlin School of Economics and Law www.hwr-berlin.de Panalpina 8 Königs Wusterhausen www.panalpina.de 11 Business Administration and Economy Academy Berlin PSI 9 Ludwigsfelde www.vwa-gruppe-bcw.de www.psi.de ReiCo Logistik 10 Mittenwalde Research institutes www.reico-spedition.de 12 Fraunhofer Application Center for Logistics REWE 11 Oranienburg System Planning and Information Systems www.rewe.de Cottbus 12 www.ali.isu-cottbus.de Rhenus Logistics Pritzwalk www.rhenus.com 13 Fraunhofer-Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology IPK in Berlin Rieck Logistik 13 Rangsdorf www.ipk.fraunhofer.de www.rieck-logistik.de 14 Transport Technology Systems Siemens 14 Rüdersdorf Network (FAV) www.siemens.de www.fav.de C. Spaarmann 15 Schönefeld 15 Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB) www.spaarmann.de www.zib.de Toll Collect 16 Schwarzheide 16 Steinbeis-Transfer Centre Asicon: www.toll-collect.de Technology Consulting and Marketing at the HTW Berlin Trinks 17 Schwedt www.asicon-berlin.com www.trinks.de 17 TSB Innovation Agency Berlin GmbH Ullrich 18 Velten www.technologiestiftung-berlin.de www.ullrich-gruppe.de 19 UPS Wittenberge www.ups.de VW Original Teile Logistik www.volkswagen-otlg.de WLS www.wls-logistic.de Powerful technology transfer Seven universities, 21 institutes and universities of applied sciences with around 190,000 students and more than 250 private and public institutes form one of the most dense research network centers in Europe. Logistics specialists be- nefit from the specialized industry expertise of the scientific institutes. Among these institutes are the logistics faculties of the TU Berlin, the Technical University of Applied Sciences in Wildau, and the Fraunhofer Application Center for Logistic System Planning and Information in Cottbus. Production Technology Center Berlin: A cooperation of the Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin) and the Fraunhofer-Institute IPK Partnership with perspectives The LogisticNetz Berlin-Brandenburg e.V. brings all the logistics industry activity and information in the capital region together: ■ Marketing and public relations ■ Business introductions ■ Site selection and investment consultancy Moving through the city with high-tech: Display panel from the Traffic Management Center Berlin, VMZ ■ Planning, financing and implementation of logistic real estate estate for logistics purposes ■ Warehousing, distribution, and transport Telematics in the ■ Research, advanced training and knowledge transfer capital region The network, founded by experts in the logistics service chain, benefits the cooperation between the members, and optimizes For the combination of IT and mobile data-transfer via tele- individual consulting and procedures for clients. communications, Berlin-Brandenburg offers sophisticated www.logistiknetz-bb.de know-how and real-time field tests. Developments, concepts and innovations are implemented and demonstrated in transport, virtual parking, and navigation. Toll Collect, which operates across Germany, has its Head Office in Berlin. The electronic toll system for freight vehicles is one of the leading tech nology telematics systems in Europe. As one of the first German pilot applications, the electronically controlled par- king process “Mobile Parking” has been used in Berlin since