Economy of Dresden flights are offered to Frankfurt, Munich, Düsseldorf, Vienna and Moscow. Furthermore, there are a lot of touristic flights especially to the Mediterranean Regions. There is a larger inner harbour in Dresden. The river Elbe waterway connects Dresden with the Hamburg Harbour and Prague. The Midland Canal offers an indirect connection to the Duisport (Duisburg harbour). Dresden is connected by some longer Bundesautobahns: The A 4 to Frankfurt and Cologne, the A 14 is running to Leipzig and Hannover, the A 13 is running to Berlin and the A 17 is running to Prague. The socialist enterprises had been inefficient already
Dresden of which cater in the upscale range. Dresden still has a shortage of corporate headquarters. The media sector is not particularly strong in Dresden. The media in Dresden include two major newspapers of regional record: the "Sächsische Zeitung" ("Saxon Newspaper", circulation around 228,000) and the "Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten" ("Dresden's Latest News", circulation around 50,000). Dresden has a broadcasting centre belonging to the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk. The "Dresdner Druck- und Verlagshaus" (Dresden printing plant and publishing house) produces part of Spiegel's print run, amongst other newspapers and magazines. Dresden is home to a number of renowned universities, but among German cities it