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Horst Sorg Managing Director Austria DHL Freight Hermann Filz CEO Eastern Europe DHL Global Forwarding Landeshauptfrau Johanna Mikl-Leitner Thomas Ram Brgermeister Fischamend Christoph Wahl Managing Director Austria DHL Global Forwarding Uwe Brinks CEO DHL Freight Dr. Thomas George CEO Europe DHL Global ForwardingDHL campus at the Vienna Airport to serve as key strategic hub for Austria and Eastern EuropeBundling overland air and ocean freight at a single location improves service and increases freight volume turnover rateSome 250 employees to consolidate and dispatch freight at hubYesterday DHL Global Forwarding Deutsche Post DHL Groups air and ocean freight specialist together with DHL Freight one of Europes leading road freight providers celebrated the opening of DHLs new Vienna Airport campus in the county of Fischamend. The state-of-the-art logistics hub will combine the strengths of the three different transport modes overland air and ocean freight for optimal handling and transport of goods in and out of Austria and Eastern Europe. The new DHL campus at the Vienna Airport adds another important logistics hub and gateway to the DHL Global Forwarding Freight worldwide network. Prominent guests from government and the private sector took part in the event including Johanna Mikl-Leitner Governor of the state of Lower Austria Thomas Ram Mayor of Fischamend and Gnther Ofner CEO of the Vienna Airport Flughafen Wien AG.With our new logistics hub at the Vienna Airport we are leveraging the best synergies between DHL Global Forwarding and DHL Freight said Tim Scharwath CEO Global Forwarding Freight. The new DHL campus at the Vienna Airport adds another important logistics hub to our global transportation network which we use to service over 220 countries and territories. Until now DHL Global Forwarding and DHL Freight conducted business from three separate locations around Vienna these will now be consolidated at the new campus. Along with some 3500m2 of office space DHLs new Vienna Airport campus includes two freight terminals each measuring some 12000m2 and consisting of roughly 5000m2 for DHL Global Forwarding warehousing and handling as well as 7000m2 for DHL Freight. In order to meet the steadily growing demand for logistics and transport services in the life sciences and healthcare sector DHL has also created larger capacities for temperature-controlled goods. With over 1200m2 DHL Global Forwarding has doubled its space in this area.Our longer-term goal is to be the market and quality leader in European overland transport which is why we continue to invest in the expansion and further development of our transport and groupage network explains Uwe Brinks CEO DHL Freight. We already have one of Europes densest terminal networks. The new DHL campus at the Vienna Airport is another important step in this direction.Design and construction of the new DHL campus focused on sustainable building practices and the use of renewable energy in line with Deutsche Post DHL Groups target to achieve zero-emission logistics by the year 2050. In addition the new logistics hub also meets the highest TAPA security standards TAPA A.