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Leipzig/Halle cargo volumes reach 1m tonnes by October for the first time
Leipzig/Halle Airport saw cargo volumes increase by 9.1% year on year to 1,012,448 tonnes between January and October - the first time the airport has reached the 1m tonne milestone this early in the year.The increase is higher than the overall German trend, which registered growth of 2.2% (according to ...
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DHL Express hails ten years in Leipzig
DHL Express celebrated the tenth anniversary of its Leipzig airfreight hub on the weekend of 1-2 September, with a family celebration for employees and an exclusive festival concert for invited citizens from all over central Germany.The final event on Sunday was an official ceremony in the Leipzig Gewandhaus, attended by ...
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Record cargo first quarter for Leipzig/Halle airport
Leipzig/Halle Airport handled 298,500 tonnes of airfreight in the first three months of 2018, a 12.3% increase on same period last year.The German gateway, and Europe’s fifth-largest cargo hub, handled about 107,500 tonnes in March, setting another monthly record.Leipzig/Halle Airport handled 1.14m tonnes of airfreight in 2017, a 8.2% rise ...
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November boost for cargo hub Leipzig
Leipzig/Halle Airport’s monthly freight volumes exceeded 100,000 tonnes for the first time in November.Germany’s second-largest cargo hub handled 105,100 tonnes of freight last month as volumes rose by 9.4% in comparison with the same month in 2016.Cargo volumes also broke through the one million tonne barrier for the second time ...
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Leipzig/Halle supports ever-growing freight volumes
Leipzig/Halle airport handled 828,163 tonnes of cargo during the first nine months of 2017, a 7.7% increase over the same period last year for Germany’s second-largest airfreight hub.It also represented the 13th consecutive year of cargo growth at Europe’s fifth-largest airfreight gateway.The airport, operated by Mitteldeutsche Flughafen, serves as a ...
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Leipzig/Halle Airport handles cattle shipment
Leipzig/Halle Airport has handled the movement of no less than 165 cattle who were making their way from Germany to the Gulf region.The animals were handled at the airport’s Animal Export Center, before being loaded on-board a Boeing 747-400 for their journey to the Middle East.Originating in the German states ...
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Leipzig/Halle opens the fridge for temperature sensitive cargo
Leipzig/Halle airport‘s World Cargo Center has started operations at a new refrigerated warehouse.The facility at the German hub has direct access to the apron area, offering short transport routes to and from aircraft and trucks.Said an airport spokesperson: “The configuration of the refrigeration centre enables parallel storage of pharmaceutical items ...
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DHL Leipzig station receives IATA CEIV Pharma certification
The airfreight station in Leipzig of DHL Global Forwarding, the air and ocean freight specialist within the Deutsche Post DHL Group, has been granted Center of Excellence for Independent Validators in Pharmaceutical Logistics (CEIV) certification by IATA.IATA’s CEIV Pharma certification “attests the highest service and quality standards for life sciences ...
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Good start to the year for Leipzig/Halle
Leipzig/Halle airport, Europe’s fifth-busiest and Germany’s second-biggest airfreight gateway, handled 84,782 tonnes of cargo in January this year, an increase of 6.9% over the same month of 2016.Operated by Mitteldeutsche Flughafen AG (which also operates Dresden airport as well as cargo and ground handler PortGround), Leipzig/Halle handled approximately 1.05 million ...
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Anything Stansted can do Leipzig can do better...
The editorial team regularly receives updates from airports when they handle a special aircraft, or even a new aircraft of a certain type.Earlier today, for example, Stansted sent us images of a Volga-Dnepr An-124 that arrived at the north London airport over the weekend.However, Leipzig/Halle Airport completely trumped those images ...
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Leipzig/Halle hits the million mark
On 14 December, Leipzig/Halle International Airport – Germany’s second-biggest and Europe’s fifth-busiest air cargo hub – handled its millionth tonne of freight of 2016.In fact, by the end of the day it had handled a total of 1,002,875 tonnes over the course of the current calendar year.“By breaking through the ...
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Bridge of size for the An225 at Leipzig/Halle
An Antonov 225, the world’s largest commercial cargo aircraft, stopped off at Germany's Leipzig/Halle Airport en route to Chile via Iceland.It was the An225's 21st visit to the central German airport. A Leipzig/Halle spokesperson said: "Apart from its home base at Kiev Gostomel, there is no other European airport that ...
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NewsRapid growth and need for speed fuels DHL's Leipzig investment
When DHL Express first announced plans to switch its main European hub to Germany’s Leipzig-Halle Airport in 2005 it was hard to imagine how quickly freight tonnages would increase once the facility was open.In 2007, the year before the new DHL hub was opened, the airport handled 101,364 tonnes. In ...
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DHL opens two terminals at Leipzig and debuts automated pallet handling system
DHL Express has opened two new terminals at its fast growing Leipzig hub, with one of the operations featuring the world's first automated pallet handling system.The new Terminal Two and Terminal Three were built at a cost of €230m, more than doubling the surface area of the hub's sorting centre ...
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JettLease moves into Leipzig
Lufthansa-owned ULD management company Jettainer has set up a base station for its JettLease network at Leipzig/Halle Airport, Germany's second largest airfreight hub. Airlines can lease equipment for periods ranging from one day to several months, at very short notice, if necessary.As well as standard containers, horse boxes and car ...
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