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Logistics in the Stuttgart Region Holger Bach, Stuttgart Region Economic Development Corporation Introduction Germany as being the leading economy in Europe, both in terms of GDP and population
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Logistics in the Stuttgart Region Holger Bach, Stuttgart Region Economic Development Corporation
Introduction • Germany as being the leading economy in Europe, both in terms of GDP and population • The Stuttgart Region is one of the driving forces in Germany and in Baden-Württemberg, it accounts for 30% of GDP, 25 % of the population, while only 10% of the territory • Other advantages: • Our companies are highly successful beyond Germany‘s borders • The Region encompasses the most important growth enterprises of the future • Logistics Goods mobility for efficient division of labor in the enterprises, and for Import / Export • The most appropriate formula for the explanation of the term logistics is:“the right merchandise at the right time on the right place”
Contents • Significance of the logistics sector • Germany as a logistics location • The Stuttgart Region • Description of the existing logistics locations • Initiatives of the Stuttgart Region • Conclusion
Significance of the logistics sector • In Germany, 2.7 million people (around 8% of the total working population) work in this sector a figure unmatched by any other sector • Annual business turnover: 70 € billion • Around 15 € billion are invested each year in logistics real estate, technologies, and qualification measures • Germany holds 28%of the Europeanlogistics market, and enjoys an excellent international reputation (innovations, creativity, know-how...) • Includes around 60,000 enterprises • Represents 7,2% of Germany’s GDP • The sector grows faster than the economy 1% of economic growth means 3% of increase in goods traffic
Germany as a logistics location • Germany as a significant and accurate location for logistics has leapt in the recent years, due to: • Its central geographical position in Europe • Its modern transport infrastructure • Its highly-qualified labor forces
Germany’s transport infrastructure • Germany’s motorways, railways and interior waterways cover a length of almost 60,000 kilometers • 12,000 kilometers of motorways (the biggest motorway network in the EU) • 70 % of goods are shipped on motorways • 36,000 kilometers of railways (the longest network in the EU) • 60 airports, 17 of which are international
“Freight Transport and Logistics Master Plan for Germany” • Actors: German Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs, together with experts from SMEs, big companies, and the scientific world • Time period: from early 2006 to 2008 • Areas of work: improvement of infrastructure, links, markets, training skills, funding, and information and communication technologies (ICTs) • Objectives: • Optimization of inter-modal transport • Improved links from sea and inland ports, airports and terminals • Exploitation of ICTs to bring about better traffic, supply chain, safety and security management • One of the most important expected results: less traffic
Regional centers of gravity in the logistics sector Stuttgart Region Source: prognos
The Stuttgart Region • 2.7 billion of inhabitants, from 169 countries • Best high-tech region in Europe • Possesses a great number of industry-related research facilities • Records for the highest rate of industry-funded Research & Development, as well as for the biggest patent applications in Germany • Accounts for the highest export quota in Europe • Stuttgart Region : Capital City of Stuttgart + 5 counties (Böblingen / Esslingen / Göppingen / Ludwigsburg / Rems-Murr-Kreis)
The Stuttgart Region on the move • Marshalling yard for freight trains • Inter-modal terminals connecting rails, roads, and waterways • At the junction of: • BAB 8 Karlsruhe / Munich • BAB 81 Singen / Heilbronn • Airport near the new fair • Train station connected to Europe – in 3.5 hours in Paris • Stuttgart 21 • Suburban railway network / subway lines / bus lines
The Stuttgart Region – Strengths and Weaknesses • Strengths: • In the Region, there is a series of logistics-oriented actors: all national and international most considerable enterprises are represented • A very well-developed freight infrastructure, in particular the road network • Economic boom in the recent years Increase of traffic for the combined transport • Weaknesses: • Few available spaces: the port of Stuttgart and the freight depot of Kornwestheim only as existing structures assured of a good future • High rent prices: Average rent prices for enterprises in the Stuttgart Region
Existing logistics locations in the Stuttgart Region • GVZ – Güterverkehrszentrum Kornwestheim • DUSS – Terminal Kornwestheim • Port of Stuttgart • Port of Plochingen • Stuttgart Airport
GVZ (Güterverkehrszentren) – Cargo Transport Centers • GVZ are “freight villages“, developed by governmental agencies in collaboration with the logistics industry (total of 33 GVZs in Germany) • They are freight support means and regional nodes • Services: customs clearance, security and vehicle maintenance… • GVZ Kornwestheim: Project coordinated by KLOK • Objective: Goods mobility and inter-modality in the urban center of the Stuttgart Region through the development of the area around the combination traffic terminal and the marshalling yard in Kornwestheim for a cargo transport center • Expected effects: total of 1,800 full-time employees + railway connection of properties
Cargo Transport Center in Kornwestheim • Planned net effective area offer: 50 ha (considered as being the minimum for a cargo transport center) • After stage of expansion III, holds itself with 15.9 ha beyond limits • 36% of green areas scheduled, among which so as to ensure fresh air supply for Kornwestheim
DUSS Terminal in Kornwestheim • DUSS: Deutsche Umschlaggesellschaft Schiene-Straße mbH • Services (among others): • Customs clearance and treatment • Loading device examination • Storage of loading devices • Terminal abilities:
Port of Stuttgart • 24 enterprises: • DUSS • Eisen und Metall GmbH • Panopa Logistik • Heinrich Mertz • SCT Stuttgarter Container Terminal GmbH • And many more • In only 52 hours, the inland boats reach along the Neckar and the Rhine the ports of Rotterdam or Antwerpen • High-quality transport offers: • Inland boats, railway and trucks • Terminal for the container shipping • Freight depot for the combined transport rail/road
Port of Stuttgart – Cargo handling Waterway and railway cargo handling in 2006 • These goods came to the port or went off from there with 1,203 boats and 41,519 railway carriages.
Port of Plochingen • 17 enterprises: • BayWa AG • Vöhringer Holzhandel GmbH + Co • Rhenus AG & Co. KG • TanQuid GmbH & Co. KG • etc • Handling means: • 3 cranes (3,6 - 25 t) • 9 container bridges (5 - 29 t) • 2 pneumatic handling systems for cereals and animal food • 2 fire-fighting equipments for liquid products
Stuttgart Airport Around 60 Airlines and Charters 10.111.346 passengers About 400 departures and landings each day Turnover 2006: 211.1 € million Around 400 hectares, including 190 hectares of green areas
Air cargo center in Stuttgart Airport • Figures 2006: 20,290 tons were sent by air directly from Stuttgart, including 9,786 tons of air mails • 78 enterprises • Air France Cargo • Cargolux Airlines International S.A. • ITG-GmbH Internationale Spedition • M&M air sea cargo GmbH • SAS Cargo • TNT Freight Management (Germany) GmbH • UPS Supply Chain solutions • etc
Facts and figures about the new air cargo center • The new air cargo center is operational since January 2002 • Directly linked to the supra-regional road network of B27, B312 and A8 • Ground rent accounts for 19 € per m2 and year • Capacity: 160,000 tons air cargo each year (before: 80,000 t) • 24 hours business • Directly accessible range: 129,000m2 • 3 very modern freight terminals with: • Halls and goods surface: 40.000 m2 • Office space: 23.000 m2 • Total investments: 150 € million • 5 blocks for the planes, directly in the air cargo center • Direct accommodation roads
Initiatives from the Stuttgart Region • KLOK – Kompetenzzentrum Logistik Kornwestheim GmbH (Logistics Competence Center) • ENLoCC Project • openENLoCC
KLOK • What is KLOK? • KLOK keeps a marshalling yard which will be in the future at the center of a network of logistics enterprises, scientific and transfer-oriented institutions as well as associations and enterprises in the environment of logistics • Network-oriented economic development Initiation and coordination of projects for the improvement of logistics infrastructures • Why having chosen Kornwestheim as home town for KLOK? • Modern, well-frequented rail/road combined transport terminal • Marshalling yard with future • Development of a Cargo Transport Center (GVZ) around these facilities • Central location in the north of Stuttgart with important shippers and enterprises with high logistics affinity
KLOK Activities • Network for goods mobility and economic strength • Working group on goods mobility in the Stuttgart Region • European cooperation through the support of the transalpine rail traffic in the project „AlpFRail“ • European development cooperation in Cargo Transport Centers in the project „REDETRAL“ • Regional logistics portal LOGPLAT in the project „ENLoCC“ • Advanced training courses LOGTRAINING in the project „ENLoCC“ • European cooperation at the development of training material for combined transport in the project „TraLoLa“ • Secretariat of the European network of Logistics Competence Centers „openENLoCC“ • Official Competence Center of the Stuttgart Region and contact for all questions related to regional logistics
ENLoCC Project • Project partly financed by the EU • Significance of transport logistics for economic development and for climate issues • General objectives: to bring a noticeable effect and to improve European cooperation for sustainable development • Contributes to the following EU-strategies: • Putting the European Spatial Development Perspective (ESDP) into practice: efficient and sustainable use of the infrastructure; transport; transport and networking; polycentric and balanced spatial development • Know-how transfer and optimization of the results from national and EU-programmes
openENLoCC • In Europe, 12 centers will be created, taking KLOK as a role model KLOK operates the secretariat of this network • Constitution of logistics Competence Centers in European regions • Regional logistics platform (www.logplat.net) • Education and training in the field of logistics • Goods mobility in European networks and others ways • Logistics nodes • Logistics and SMEs
openENLoCC Partners • Austria: Office of the Carinthian Regional Government, Department of Infrastructure • Czech Republic: Břeclav Municipality • Finland: Center for Maritime Studies, University of Turku • France: CRITT Transport and Logistics • Germany: - KLOK - LOGIS.NET: Competence Center for transport and Logistics in the Weser-Ems-Region - WRS: Stuttgart Region Economic Development Corporation • Hungary: - Pannon Logistics - KTI: Institute for Transport Science • Italy: - CERTET for Government of Lombardy Region - LOGICA – Campania Agency for Logistics and Freight Transport Promotion - Emilia-Romagna Region • Poland: ILIM – Institute of Logistics and Warehousing • Slovenia: University of Maribor • Sweden: Malmö University / RVC / STMÖ
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Thank you for your kindattention! Holger Bach, Wirtschaftsförderung Region Stuttgart GmbH holger.bach@region-stuttgart.de
Thank you for your kindattention! Holger Bach, Wirtschaftsförderung Region Stuttgart GmbH holger.bach@region-stuttgart.de