DHL Hub Leipzig

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DHL Hub Leipzig GmbH

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founding 2008
Seat Schkeuditz , Germany
management
  • Ralph Wondrak, chairman of the board
  • Philippe Bauer, managing director
  • Helmut Schußmann, managing director
  • Peter Wiegand, managing director
Number of employees ~ 5700
Branch Air freight
Website https://www.dhl.de

The DHL Hub Leipzig GmbH , based in Schkeuditz , operates for the logistics company DHL at Leipzig / Halle Airport is one of three global aviation hubs (Global hubs). DHL is a Deutsche Post AG company under the name Deutsche Post DHL . For the operation of the DHL hub, in addition to the DHL hub, the European Air Transport Leipzig GmbH was established , which takes on the maintenance of the aircraft.

history

As early as 1998, Deutsche Post AG decided to include Leipzig / Halle in the DHL freight network in addition to Munich, Stuttgart and Hamburg airports, in order to be able to improve the express offers in central Germany . With a direct connection to the road and rail network, the airport offered good infrastructure. The DHL Worldwide Express stations in Dresden , Glauchau , Erfurt and Glesien should benefit directly from the new connection. The organization of the Leipzig branch was in the hands of DHL Aviation GmbH NL Berlin (later DHL Airways GmbH ), which at the time was based at Berlin-Schönefeld Airport . The flight took place from Leipzig / Halle to Cologne / Bonn , Luton ( London ), Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle , Cologne / Bonn and back to Leipzig / Halle with a Fokker F-27 operated by SkyTeam .

At the beginning of 1999 the station got its own branch manager, the air freight was handled by the airport subsidiary at the time, freight handling and development company (FAL) together with PortGround GmbH . From 2002 the Swiftair flew with a Convair 580 , which was loaded with containers. Charter flights on behalf of EAT Brussels NV / SA were also handled, for example the Boeing 757 landed in Leipzig at that time.

After a selection process lasting several months, Deutsche Post AG announced Leipzig / Halle Airport as the location for its future European hub on November 9, 2004. The planning took place under the project name Pegasus , the project manager was Michael Reinboth (* 1953) in January 2005. The project management was in the hands of the engineering company Obermeyer Planen + Beraten . The project team had its offices together with DHL Airways GmbH in an airport-owned building in the southern part of the airport. When the space was no longer sufficient after half a year, rooms were rented in the Airport Business Center of Deutsche Bank in Schkeuditz, where DHL offices are still located today. Personnel management for the necessary new hires was in the hands of a subsidiary of the City of Leipzig. A first provisional sorting center was opened in June 2006 in the former Terminal C of the airport. There the first new employees familiarized themselves with the activities within a gateway .

In the presence of Frank-Walter Steinmeier (then Federal Foreign Minister), Wolfgang Tiefensee (then Federal Minister of Transport), Georg Milbradt (then Prime Minister of Saxony), Wolfgang Böhmer (then Prime Minister of Saxony-Anhalt) and 400 other guests, the CEO of Deutsche Post AG Frank opened Appel on May 26, 2008 the DHL Hub Leipzig. The opening ceremony was held in the hangar of European Air Transport Leipzig.

Since the original transshipment area (initially referred to as warehouse , currently terminal ) was reaching its capacity limits due to the steadily growing volume of freight, construction of two new loading halls - Terminals 2 and 3 - began in 2015. Its opening and simultaneous commissioning took place on October 12, 2016.

Freight volume

The hub at Leipzig / Halle Airport has been in operation since the beginning of 2008. An average of around 400,000 consignments weighing 2,000 tons are handled every night, in addition to the volume of air freight (around 65 aircraft take-offs and landings every day) and freight transport by road. The apron, which is over 600,000 m² in size, offers parking spaces for up to 65 aircraft at the same time. About 50 destinations in Europe, Asia and America are served directly from the DHL hub in Leipzig.

The heart of the distribution area is a multi-part conveyor system on which the mail items placed are pre-sorted according to their destination. The sorting system has a total length of 46.6 kilometers. With the expansion in 2016, another sorting belt for heavy and bulky freight was put into operation. With a total length of over 22 km, the facility is the longest of its kind in Germany and one of the largest in Europe.

Subsidies

The Free State of Saxony subsidized the establishment of DHL with around 71 million euros. In July 2008 the EU Commission canceled a guarantee from the Free State of Saxony for the operation of Leipzig / Halle Airport in the amount of 500 million euros. The public investment of 350 million euros for the new runway south of the airport, however, classified the competition authorities as permissible state aid.

DHL hub at Leipzig / Halle Airport

Jobs

DHL Hub Leipzig GmbH committed to employing 3,500 employees by the end of 2012; this goal was achieved at the end of October 2012.

The vast majority of the employees are the so-called operation agents and ramp agents who work in the distribution center and on the apron; they are mainly used during nighttime aircraft handling. Another third of the jobs include higher-skilled jobs, such as administrative employees. There are also employees in maintenance, security personnel and others.

Connection

The DHL hub is connected to the nearby A 9 motorways via federal road 6 and to the A 14 via state road 8a .

A siding connects the hub with the Magdeburg – Leipzig railway line .

criticism

In 2008, the ver.di union criticized the fact that the wages of the Operation Agents and Ramp Agents were insufficient to ensure their existence. An hourly wage of 7.56 euros, regulated by collective bargaining agreements, applied, but the weekly working time of the Operation Agents, for example, was 22 hours according to the open-ended employment contract. This corresponds to a monthly income of around 700 euros. Depending on requirements, DHL concluded additional employment contracts with the agents for a few months, which could include additional working hours. According to ver.di, however, there will be hardly any additional working time as the number of employees increases. Ver.di therefore estimated that of the 3,500 DHL employees at the time, around 1,400 had to apply for unemployment benefit II in order to secure their livelihood. In 2015 ver.di announced that the weekly working hours of employees would be gradually reduced by 1.5 hours a week until 2018, with full wage compensation as part of a collective agreement.

Around a dozen citizens' groups have been fighting in the Leipzig / Halle area since 2008 against the health problems caused by nightly aircraft noise. In 2018 there were around 160 take-offs and landings per night.

In April 2020, the cargo airport hit a European record high in the middle of the Corona crisis with up to 185 take-offs and landings per night.

Environmental activists criticize that Leipzig Halle Airport has the highest CO 2 emissions of all German airports.

In 2019, around 79,000 flights started from Schkeuditz Airport, three times the number in 2007. The planned expansion of cargo air traffic would increase flight movements to 118,000 by 2032.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DHL: Express division - facts and figures (as of 2011) ( Memento from May 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Leipzig / Halle preferred option for central DHL hub. ( Memento of the original from September 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Press release of November 9, 2004 (accessed September 7, 2015) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dp-dhl.com
  3. ↑ Deutsche Post DHL: DHL air freight hub Leipzig / Halle officially opened.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Press release from May 26, 2008 (accessed September 7, 2015)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.dp-dhl.com  
  4. ↑ Deutsche Post DHL: Speech by Dr. Frank Appel. On the occasion of the press conference for the opening of the Air Hub Leipzig / Halle on May 26, 2008 (accessed on September 7, 2015)
  5. ↑ Detlef Drewes: EU overturns guarantee for DHL. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , July 23, 2008 (accessed September 7, 2015)
  6. ↑ DHL is sticking to its goal of 3500 jobs. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, July 25, 2011 (accessed September 7, 2015)
  7. ↑ DHL hires 3500th employees in Leipzig - staff should be increased further. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , October 26, 2012 (accessed September 7, 2015)
  8. ↑ Sonja Fehr, Andre Seifert: More cheap work. In: Die Tageszeitung , May 27, 2008 (accessed September 7, 2015)
  9. ↑ DHL Hub Leipzig GmbH: Working hours are reduced to 38.5 hours with full wages. (No longer available online.) Ver.di, formerly in the original ; accessed on June 27, 2017 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.verdi.de  
  10. ↑ Ralf Julke: Citizens' initiative presents a catalog of demands to limit aircraft noise at the Leipzig cargo airport. In: Leipziger Internet Zeitung , September 22, 2019 (accessed June 5, 2020)
  11. ^ Ralf Geißler: Airports without travelers. In: Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk , April 23, 2020 (accessed June 5, 2020)
  12. ↑ Ralf Julke: Citizens' initiative presents a catalog of demands to limit aircraft noise at the Leipzig cargo airport. In: Leipziger Internet Zeitung , September 22, 2019 (accessed June 5, 2020)
  13. ↑ Ralf Julke: The expansion policy of Leipzig Halle Airport is causing more and more trouble in Leipzig. In: Leipziger Internet Zeitung , February 10, 2020 (accessed June 5, 2020)

Coordinates: 51 ° 24 ′ 20.5 ″  N , 12 ° 14 ′ 18.3 ″  E