Far-reaching impact

Location benefits metropolis

Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city.
Cologne lies in the economically strong Rhineland region. 40 per cent of the European Union's gross domestic product is generated within a radius of 500 kilometres.
Cologne boasts an excellent infrastructure with three airports within a radius of 15 to 200 kilometres, superb integration in international road and railway traffic networks, and Germany's second-largest inner harbour.

The Rheinauhafen harbour covers a total office and residential area of 14 ha and is currently the biggest development project of the City of Cologne. The Rhine's bank area stretches for more than 2 km.
The Rheinauhafen harbour lies in a central location whereby the entire area links three existing districts: the City, the Old Town and the Southern City.
The Rheinauhafen harbour as a district will become Cologne's new, vibrant meeting point with its successful fusion of historic and modern structures, of commercially used buildings and residential houses, of open spaces, arts, culture and gastronomy.

Cologne is a major city on one of Europe's most important waterways and as such a historic trade centre and traditionally cosmopolitan.
International automotive groups, media, software and telecommunications companies, public and private television stations choose Cologne as their location. Every year, around 42,000 companies from 120 states present themselves at koelnmesse and attract more than two million shoppers from 175 countries.
Cologne Bonn Airport is an important, international cargo airport. It is the European hub of freight company UPS; even the world's biggest cargo aircraft, the Antonov AN-225, flies into Cologne's airport.