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DHL unites Frankfurt Airport operations under one roof

[ August 18, 2025   //   ]

DHL Global Forwarding has started full operations at its new Frankfurt Airport warehouse. near Gate 31 in CargoCity South. It gives the air and seafreight specialist expanded capacity at a single, central location for handling up to 300,000 tonnes of cargo annually and replaces operations split across three sites at the airport. Fraport, the owner and operator of Frankfurt Airport, designed and built the new facility in just over a year.

Anke Giesen, executive director retail and real estate at Fraport said: “The launch of full operations by DHL Global Forwarding at the state-of-the-art airfreight warehouse is a major milestone in the ongoing development of Frankfurt Airport as an airfreight hub. Under the CargoHub Masterplan, Fraport aims to increase cargo volumes at FRA by some 50% to around three million metric tons of airfreight per year. In this context, the new warehouse is a major project for Fraport’s real estate development team, and it’s now been completed on schedule.”
The new facility includes 24,500sq m of warehouse space on a 55,000sq m site, there are 54 gates and truck docks and 25 parking spaces for trucks.

A large photovoltaic system is currently being built on the warehouse roof, with peak capacity of two megawatts that will be fed into the airport grid.

Fraport is seeking ESG verification as well as gold certification from the German Sustainable Building Council (DGNB).

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