1. HUB 53/12° – Logistics Network Güstrow  Prignitz  Ruppin www.hub5312.de HUB 53/12° - Logistics Network Güstrow Prignitz Ruppin

2. HUB 53/12° – Logistics Network Güstrow  Prignitz  Ruppin www.hub5312.de 2008: Start of the way to Europe Entrepreneur talks show: There are important streams of goods bet- ween  the Baltic Sea area /Russia and central-/ southern Europe  Skandinavia and central-/ south Europe  the North Sea ports and eastern Europe

3. HUB 53/12° – Logistics Network Güstrow  Prignitz  Ruppin www.hub5312.de The project HUB 53/12°  HUB 53/12° = coordinates of the region  Development as location of logistic services  Communal initiative crossing borders of counties and federal states to concentrate the regional skills  Bottom up-approach : out of the region onto the European lavel  Best practice for " glocalisation ": Local vision meets global perspective

4. HUB 53/12° – Logistics Network Güstrow  Prignitz  Ruppin www.hub5312.de Formal partnership since March 2009: Barlachstadt Güstrow Fontanestadt Neuruppin as a Regional Centre of Growth with the municipalities of Rheinsberg, Lindow, Fehrbellin and Temnitz Stadt Pritzwalk with the municipalities of Heiligengra- be, Meyenburg, Putlitz-Berge and Witt- stock The regional partners

5. HUB 53/12° – Logistics Network Güstrow  Prignitz  Ruppin www.hub5312.de The location advantages  10 million inhabitants in a radius of two hours ride  Attractive location in the hinterland of the sea ports  Location of European importance between Scandinavia and southern Europe  Efficient value-added chain because of focussed expertise of the logistics network  Rapid availability of spaces for greenfield development  Professional and motivated manpower and continuing education offers

6. HUB 53/12° – Logistics Network Güstrow  Prignitz  Ruppin www.hub5312.de Gates of the transport infrastructure  Railway – main-line from Hamburg, Berlin, Rostock  Marshalling Yard – Wustermark, Seddin  Road – Motorway A 24/ A 19 from Berlin, Hamburg, Rostock  Freight village – Berlin-West/ Berlin-South  Seaports – North Sea: Bremen, Hamburg Baltic Sea: Lübeck, Wismar, Rostock, Sassnitz  International Airports – Hamburg, Berlin

7. HUB 53/12° – Logistics Network Güstrow  Prignitz  Ruppin www.hub5312.de Regional transport infrastructure  Railway – Güstrow – Pritzwalk – Neustadt as a bypass to main lines, local railways as feeder lines to the bypass  Road – Motorway A 24/ A 19  Inland port – Wittenberge, Berlin-West, Velten  Airport / Airfield – Parchim, Rostock-Laage and Kyritz, Fehr- bellin

8. HUB 53/12° – Logistics Network Güstrow  Prignitz  Ruppin www.hub5312.de Railway infrastructure Dense local railway network, predomi- nantely owned by private railway companies 12 freight stations as gates to the railway network Five railway companies offer railway services in the region of HUB 53/12°

9. HUB 53/12° – Logistics Network Güstrow  Prignitz  Ruppin www.hub5312.de Industrial areas At present in HUB 53/12° there are  18 industrial areas  of it ten areas with partly new sidings  great industrial areas for 24 hour running with no noise contingen- tation for reasonable prices This can only be offered by a few regions in Germany.

10. HUB 53/12° – Logistics Network Güstrow  Prignitz  Ruppin www.hub5312.de The Goals (Bottom up-approach) 1.Fulfilling the requirements of companies in the region by extension of existing logistics services 2.Development of the HUB to a region with European logistics importance by a high-quality range of services 3. Greenfield developement be- cause of the advantages of the brand HUB 53/12°

11. HUB 53/12° – Logistics Network Güstrow  Prignitz  Ruppin www.hub5312.de Searching for European co-operation partners HUB 53/12° is attractive for co- operation partners in the Baltic Sea area:  Use of the system change as a chance: ship  road and railway  Finishing processes (subassembly, reprocessing, packaging)  Storage capacities for shorter response times, on demand delivery  Distributing products to central and southeast Europe  INTERREG IV -proposals approved (Scandria/ Sonora)

12. HUB 53/12° – Logistics Network Güstrow  Prignitz  Ruppin www.hub5312.de Global player at the sites of HUB 53/12° Prestigious companies are still at the industry areas of HUB 53/12° - examples:  Möbelwerk Meyenburg GmbH produces 90 % of the "Billy" book shelfs all over the world  Concert GmbH is the worldwide latest manufacture to produce airlaid products  Nordgetreide GmbH has concentrated its distribution of cereals for the European food retail here,  ESE Industrie GmbH is world market leader in producing garbage tons.

13. HUB 53/12° – Logistics Network Güstrow  Prignitz  Ruppin www.hub5312.de HUB 53/12° - bundled municipal com- petence for logistics supplier and logistics user