Realterm, a global logistics real estate developer, and Leipzig/Halle Airport (LEJ) today announced plans to develop a state-of-the-art air cargo facility at Germany's second-largest air cargo airport. The build-to-suit development will feature up to 45,000 square meters of modern warehouse space...

The second phase of construction at the Leipzig/Halle Airport Technology Park was officially opened on November 22, 2022, at a celebratory event held by the investor, Greenfield Development. GEORGI Handling will operate the new handling hall for air cargo as a bonded warehouse with aviation secur...

Following the sharp declines caused by the pandemic during the previous years, both Leipzig/Halle and Dresden Airports registered significant growth in Freight volumes during the first quarter of 2022. The number of aircraft movements during the first quarter was 21,658, which was also higher tha...

The leading platform for luxury fashion Mytheresa has announced that it’ll be opening a new logistics center, directly at Leipzig/Halle Airport in Germany. It will be the company’s second one in addition to its headquarters in Munich. This is likely to create about 500 new jobs in the s...

An Ilyushin IL 76TD-90VD cargo plane operated by Volga-Dnepr took off from Leipzig/Halle Airport (LEJ) heading for Ashgabat in Turkmenistan today. It was carrying 35 tonnes of vaccines, which are being transported on behalf of a UN organisation. “As Europe’s fourth-largest air freight hu...

The volume of freight handled at Leipzig/Halle Airport (LEJ), Europe’s fourth-largest air cargo hub, is continuing to increase significantly. The volume reached the figure of 1,025,187 tonnes and already exceeded the 1 million mark in the month of August since the beginning of the year. T...

This week two Volga-Dnepr Group’s humanitarian flights took off from Leipzig/Halle Airport (LEJ) to Windhoek in Namibia. Medical supplies, weighing over 95 tons, such as masks and respirators needed by this south African country heavily affected by the Corona pandemic were urgently delivered ...

Leipzig/Halle Airport (LEJ) is ramping up its activities as a hub for humanitarian aid: at the end of last week, two further relief planes took off from the airport, destined for Windhoek, Namibia. On board the  Antonov 124 aircraft were urgently needed medical supplies, including masks and ve...

Freight volumes at Leipzig/Halle Airport (LEJ), Europe’s fourth-largest air cargo hub, are continuing to grow. The airport handled 133,873 tonnes of freight in July, 9.1 percent more than in the same month in the previous year. During the first seven months of this year, the volume increas...

Leipzig/Halle Airport has become established as a central hub for logistics associated with shipping aid supplies during the pandemic. The world’s largest plane, the Antonov 225, took off from Leipzig/Halle Airport today flying relief items to Windhoek in Namibia. The aircraft is transpor...

The German army is transporting its equipment back to Germany from its international mission in Afghanistan via Leipzig/Halle Airport. The process started on Tuesday 18 May with two helicopters, which arrived on board an Antonov 124 cargo plane. The freight aircraft are being unloaded by Por...

Freight volumes at Leipzig/Halle Airport, Europe’s fourth-largest air cargo hub, rose by 20.9 percent to a figure of more than 359,000 tonnes during the first quarter of this year. This means that the significant growth in freight operations is continuing in 2021 too. LEJ handled more than 1....

Leipzig/Halle Airport recorded the strongest growth in volumes of air freight in September for eight years: the increase amounted to 18.6%. Overall, the airport handled about 120,758 tonnes of cargo. The air freight handled during the first nine months of the year rose to roughly 986,389 tonnes, an...

Leipzig/Halle Airport, Europe's fifth-largest airfreight hub, has received CEIV Pharma certification, enabling it to process time-critical, temperature-sensitive pharmaceutical shipments around the clock. Following a one-year process, IATA, the trade association for the world’s airlines, has c...