New tower commissioned in Dresden (3 August)


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Langen, 3 August 2005

New tower commissioned in Dresden

DFS invests € 6m in Dresden unit
At the ceremony to celebrate the commissioning of the new tower in Dresden, DFS CEO Dieter Kaden commended the achievement of constructing "a tower which can stand tall – a tower which Dresden and the aviation industry can all be proud of". A different tower building had originally been planned for Dresden, namely the DFS standard tower. This tower has already been built in Leipzig, Hannover and Düsseldorf. However, it transpired that the costs of building this tower in Dresden would have been too high. Therefore, a customised tower was instead planned for Dresden, which, on the one hand, meets the requirements of providing modern air navigation services and, on the other hand, takes account of the economic situation in the region.

The seventy-year-old control tower had to be replaced as it no longer met the requirements of a modern airport in respect of providing an optimal view and accommodating state-of-the-art air traffic control equipment. DFS invested approximately € 6 million in the building, which was designed by the architecture firm "Husemann-Dr. Wichmann", and in the technical equipment, which includes a modern radar system.

DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung GmbH is a State-owned company under private law and has 5,200 employees. DFS ensures the safe and punctual handling of flights. Staff coordinate around 10,000 aircraft movements in German airspace every day, and more than three million movements every year. With this large number of flights, Germany has the highest traffic volume in Europe. DFS operates control centres in Langen, Bremen, Karlsruhe and Munich. In addition, DFS is represented in the Eurocontrol Centre in Maastricht, the Netherlands, and in the control towers of the 16 international German airports. DFS provides training and consultancy services around the world and develops and sells air traffic control, surveillance and navigation systems. The company's portfolio also comprises flight-relevant data, aeronautical publications and aeronautical information services. DFS has the following business units: Control Centre, Tower, Aeronautical Solutions and Aeronautical Information Management.


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