Facts and Figures
DHL Air Hub Leipzig/Halle
Project data
Investments
Total investment to date: EUR 360 million (EUR 300 million up to start of
full operations in 2008)
New investment from 2013: EUR 150 million
Dimensions
Overall surface area: 2 million m²
Sorting center: 48,000 m2; 413 m long, 96 m wide, 16 m high
Hangar: 27,360 m2; 232 m long, 98 m wide, 30 m high
Administration building: 11,900 m2
Fuel depot: 3 tanks, each with 3,800 m3 capacity
Apron: 1,400 m long, 400 m wide. Take-off and landing runways: approx.
3,600 m
Construction work on expansion from December 2013. Additional
warehouse – 40,000 m2; office building – 4 000 m2
Milestones of the project
September 2005
DHL signs the agreement with Leipzig/Halle airport
February 2006
Foundation work on construction site
September 2006
“Half time” in the construction project is celebrated with Federal
Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel
July 2007
Completion of construction work and start of test operation
October 2007
Transfer of flights from the Cologne gateway to Leipzig/Halle
March 2008
Transfer of flights from DHL’s previous European Air Hub in Brussels to
Leipzig/Halle
May 2008
Start of full operations
March 2010
Certification of European Air Transport GmbH as airline
November 2011
Fleet expansion: deployment of first of 18 A300-600 aircraft
May 2012
Implementation of automated Unit Load Device stacker
October 2012
3500th employee joins the team (in line with commitments made in 2004)
June 2013
18th A300-600 integrated into fleet
December 2013
Expansion of Leipzig Hub begins
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Operations
Number of flights
approximately 60 aircraft per working day
Flight destinations: Amsterdam, Athens, Bahrain, Barcelona, Basel-Mühlhausen, Bergamo,
Billund, Bologna, Bratislava, Wroclaw, Brussels, Budapest, Cincinnati
(USA), Gdansk, Frankfurt, Geneva, Gothenburg, Helsinki-Vantaa, Hong
Kong, Istanbul, Katowice, Kiev, Cologne/Bonn, Copenhagen, Linz,
Ljubljana, London Luton, London Heathrow, Luxembourg, Lyon, Madrid,
Marseille, Moscow, Munich, Nantes, New York-John F. Kennedy, Oslo,
Ostrava, Paris, Prague, Riga, Rome-Ciampino, Seoul, Shanghai,
Sharjah/United Arab Emirates, Stockholm, Stuttgart, Treviso, Toulouse,
Turku, Vitoria/Spain, Vilnius, Warsaw.
Types of aircraft
Boeing 737, Boeing 757-SF, Boeing 767F, Boeing 747, Boeing 777F
(AeroLogic), Airbus A300-600, Airbus A300-B4, Tupolew Tu-204,
Turboprop aircraft
Transshipment volume
around 1,900 t per working day
Employees
Number
more than 3,500 employees
Trainees
133 trainees for careers as commercial air transport officers, warehouse
clerks, commercial freight forwarding and logistics specialists, IT
specialists, mechatronics specialists, office communications sales staff
and warehouse logistics specialists
Technology
Sorting system:
One of the largest sorting systems in Europe, constructed by
Vanderlande Industries
Length of the main sorting machine: approx. 6,500 m
Sorting performance: 60,000 parcels and 36,000 documents an hour
Length of the document sorter: approx. 2,500 m
260 loading and unloading spaces for air containers
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Environmental protection measures
Energy/
Combined heat and power station: gas-powered CHP system covers
electricity supply
a large proportion of the requirements for electricity, heating and
cooling energy.
Photovoltaic system: 1,000 m2 solar cells are installed on the workshop
roof surface of the hangar for generating electricity.
Capacity: more than 100,000 kilowatt hours of electricity a year
Saving: more than 3,000 t of CO2 emissions
Usage of
stored rainwater to save approx. 3,000 m³
rainwater
per year, including the supply of service water
Last revised: December 2013
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