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Frankfurt Airport
  • handled 53.5 million passengers in 2008 making it the third largest airport in Europe and number nine worldwide.
  • handled 2.04 million tons of freight in 2008 making it Europe's second largest cargo airport.
  • is the hub of Deutsche Lufthansa AG .
The airport's owner and operator is Fraport AG .


At the Cross-Section of Major Transport Networks
  • The Frankfurt Region is a central traffic hub which connects all major European centres via air traffic routes, motorways, railway links and waterways.
  • This makes it an ideal and easily accessible location for business and a convenient site for logistics operations.
  • Frankfurt Airport is served by 130 airlines which connect 317 destinations in 105 countries.
  • The 'Frankfurter Kreuz' is an intersection of two major arteries of the German motorway network: A 3 (Cologne - Munich) and A 5 (Hamburg - Basle).
  • Frankfurt's ports are situated in the centre of Europe and accessible from the Dutch ports as well as from the Black Sea via the Rhine-Main-Danube Canal.
  • The Frankfurt Region is served by the high-speed train network of Deutsche Bahn AG. By high-speed train it takes only four hours to get to Berlin, three and a half hours to get to Hamburg and Munich, less than three hours to Basle and an hour to Cologne.




Public Transit: Largest German Integrated Mass Transit System
  • Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund is Germany's largest integrated mass transit system.

    It provides a dense public transport network including suburban railways, regional railways, underground rail and bus lines giving fast access to the inner-city areas as well as to the industrial parks and residential areas within the Frankfurt region - with one ticket.


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