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Air Cargo at Hamburg Airport
Air cargo expertise at Hamburg Airport
Hamburg Airport is Northern Germany’s leading airport in the air cargo segment. More than 150 companies with over 1500 employees based within the region incorporating the airport specialise in shipping air cargo. Thus, in addition to the world’s leading cargo airlines and freight forwarders, you will find a large number of specialist service providers, who know the particular features of the Northern German air cargo market inside out.
Hamburg’s air cargo companies have broad expertise at their disposal, in particular in “express cargo”, e.g. spare parts logistics, and also in the transhipment of consumer electronics, textiles, pharmaceutical and chemical products.
Logistics facilities at Hamburg Airport
The region incorporating Hamburg Airport provides approx. 56,000 m² of logistics facilities for air cargo companies and logistics service providers, 19,000 m² of which are linked with the airport apron.
The airport provides special facilities to meet all logistics requirements, e.g. refrigerated, safe custody and hazardous goods facilities, enabling all forms of air cargo to be shipped via Hamburg Airport.
Our catchment area
The air cargo catchment area covers a radius of 200 km around Hamburg Airport.
It incorporates large areas of Lower Saxony, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania as well as the whole of Schleswig-Holstein and Southern Denmark.
In Hamburg Airport’s catchment area there is annual air cargo demand of approx 250,000 tonnes. Given the disproportionately high rate growth in the metropolitan region of Hamburg, growth of 5% p.a. is also anticipated in the next few years.
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Catchment Area
An ideal know-how network
With their comprehensive level of know-how, companies based in the metropolitan region of Hamburg are in a position to demonstrate that logistics solutions “made in Hamburg“ are first class. So that this remains the case, they and the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg invest both in training and advanced training and also in infrastructure. Logistics Initiative Hamburg was also established in 2006 to enhance the range of logistics services provided and to link companies more closely together.
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Cargo traffic infrastructure
The Port of Hamburg
The port of superlatives, The Port of Hamburg is the second largest in Europe and is in the global top 10. It has the world’s most modern container terminal in Altenwerder. Half of the 10 million standard containers handled here every year are bound for or originate from Asia. Hamburg is therefore North Eastern Europe’s most important distribution centre.
Rail cargo
With the freight yard in Hamburg-Maschen and its 300 km network of track, the metropolitan region of Hamburg possesses the world’s largest marshalling yard. One of Germany’s largest and most modern terminals for combined cargo traffic, covering an area of 300,000 m², is located in Hamburg-Billwerder.
Motorways
The city is linked to the motorway system by a network of radially converging trunk roads (80 km of motorway within the city limits). Thus, Hamburg is efficiently linked to major international and neighbouring regional centres of commerce via the A7 to the west, the A1 to the south and the A24 to the east.