This year we are celebrating the 40th birthday of our fully automated baggage handling system. With a total length of 80 kilometers the system is worldwide unique. It truly represents the "heart' of our state-of-the-art central ground handling infrastructure, which is of great advantage for all our airline customers here at Frankfurt Airport. Traffic figures at Frankfurt Airport developed better than expected in 2013. Despite challenging framework condi- we have been able to achieve traf- fic growth, as we are working meticu- lously on our infrastructure and es. Passenger figures rose by nearly one percent to more than 58 million. Also traffic developed positively ing by 1.4 percent to almost 2.1 million metric tons