Locational advantages

An excellent infrastructure, optimum transport connections and a central geographical location are key factors for many companies when choosing a location. As transport hubs and global market networkers, airports play an exceptionally important role in fulfilling the mobility needs of the economy. In the long run, the capital region will also benefit from the opening of Berlin Brandenburg Airport. For BER is already having a major impact on the investment decisions made by companies.

With international flights and the best road and rail connections, TransPort BER helps to significantly improve the quality of the location. Rising passenger numbers, sufficient and expandable capacities as well as a tightly knit route network provide the ideal conditions for a new business location. The airport represents an economic growth engine in the region. It offers companies the opportunity to tap and engage in new markets and the flow of goods. This, in turn, creates numerous new jobs in the region. The total employment effect of Berlin Airports was already 40,000 jobs even before the opening of the new airport.

Concentrating all air traffic at one location creates a hub, cuts operating costs and increases productivity. Thanks to its central geographical location at the heart of an enlarged European Union, flight times to Eastern Europe and Asia are one hour less than from established hubs in Western Europe. Berlin Brandenburg Airport is centrally located, in terms of transport connections, at the interface between key growth markets in Central and Eastern Europe. BER will be a gateway to the East and develop into an East-West hub.

Skilled and motivated workers, high levels of productivity and modern logistics and communication networks will also increase the economic appeal of the capital region. Labour costs in the region are around 10 per cent lower than in other major cities in Germany. It also has the highest density of research institutions anywhere in Germany, putting companies in an excellent position to compete internationally in terms of innovations. And last but not least, Berlin is well-known for its good quality of life, offering a wide variety of cultural and entertainment opportunities.