• FrankfurtRhineMain as a business location
• Locational advantages
• International traffic hub

The FrankfurtRhineMain region is one of the most important traffic hubs in Europe. Things are on the move here - by road, rail, water and air. All over the place and in all directions. The main traffic hubs in the region set standards. For example, Frankfurt am Main international airport is the largest cargo airport on the European mainland. Frankfurt Central Station is the most frequented railway station in Germany. The public transport network in FrankfurtRhineMain is one of the largest in Germany. The two highways with the largest volume of traffic meet at the Frankfurter Kreuz junction. And the Rhine and Main rivers are the most important inland waterways in Europe. FrankfurtRhineMain has an excellent infrastructure. 35 million people can be reached within a 200 km radius.

Frankfurt airport  is the international hub for central, northern and eastern Europe. You, and above all your products, can quickly travel from here to any part of the world. A guarantor of successful business. The airport is perfectly linked to the railway and highway systems. So you can quickly get from FrankfurtRhineMain to all the important centers in Germany and Europe. Frankfurt airport is owned and operated by Fraport AG. See for yourself the airport's capacity. The facts:

Scheduled passenger flights

• airlines
• destinations
• countries
• 53.5 million passengers (2008)
• 4,400 scheduled flights each week to all major countries,
• Third largest passenger airport in Europe 
• Passengers can reach the airport from Frankfurt Central Station in just twelve minutes by regional express or underground.
• AIRail-Terminal: Flight and train connections interlink seamlessly (winner of the EU's "European Intermodal Award 2001")
• Home of Deutsche Lufthansa AG

Cargo traffic

• 2 million t of air freight (2008)
• Largest cargo airport in Europe

German highways are seen around the world as being synonymous with speed and a closely-linked system of top-quality traffic arteries. Frankfurter Kreuz is the junction between the south-north axis and the east-west axis and is the most frequented highway junction in Germany.

• More than 300,000 vehicles pass through Frankfurter Kreuz every day, making it the most frequented highway junction in Germany.
• The two principal traffic arteries of the German highway system meet at the Frankfurter Kreuz junction: the A3 (from western to southern Germany) and the A5 (from northern Germany to Switzerland)
• Federal highways: 847 km
• Total roads: 11,983 km

FrankfurtRhineMain is linked into the next-generation high-speed railway system of Deutsche Bahn AG.
In just a few hours you can reach all major cities in Germany and neighboring countries:

• Frankfurt – Berlin  4 hours
• Frankfurt – Hamburg 3.5 hours
• Frankfurt – Munich 3.5 hours
• Frankfurt – Basle  3 hours
• Frankfurt – Cologne 1 hour

More than 2,600 trains and some 350,000 passengers pass through Frankfurt Central Station each workday, making it one of the most important rail junctions in Europe.

Frankfurt am Main will soon have a direct train link to London. The high-speed link between Cologne and Brussels is currently under construction. When it is ready, the two financial centers will be comfortably and quickly linked by train. Paris is also about to be incorporated into the European high-speed system.

Frankfurt Central Station was opened in 1888. Nowadays some 350,000 passengers pass through each workday, making it one of the most important passenger stations in Europe and the central rail junction in the Rhine-Main region. In addition to Frankfurt Central Station, the FrankfurtRhineMain region is home to further IC/ICE stations

Further IC/ICE stations in FrankfurtRheinMain:

• Aschaffenburg
• Darmstadt
• Frankfurt airport
• Friedberg
• Hanau
• Limburg
• Mainz
• Offenbach
• Wiesbaden

The public transport network of the Rhine-Main Transport Association (RMV) covers 14,000 square kilometers, making it the largest in Europe. The Rhine-Main regional express (S-Bahn), which was only opened in 1978, has nine lines and 145 trains covering 260 km of track.

The Rhine and Main rivers are Europe's most important inland waterways. They lead up to the Dutch seaports and even down to the Black Sea via the Rhine-Main-Danube Canal. The principal harbors in the FrankfurtRhineMain region are Frankfurt am Main, Hanau and Aschaffenburg. Some 20% of all cargo is currently transported by water.