DB Schenker

DB Schenker comprises the DB Schenker Rail and DB Schenker Logistics Business Units

With 64,200 employees and revenues of 15.39 billion euros, DB Schenker Logistics, with its three internal business units, is the global leader in the industry. Its units include European land transport, global air and ocean freight, sophisticated logistics solutions and global supply chain management from a single source. The logistics specialists also hold top positions in automotive, high-tech, consumer goods, trade fair forwarding, special transports and services for major sporting events.

DB Schenker Rail, the rail freight company of Deutsche Bahn, is the leading provider in European rail freight transport with approximately 4.92 billion euros in revenues and 31,800 employees.

DB Schenker Rail has its own companies, subsidiaries, affiliates and joint ventures operating in 15 countries in Europe. Thanks to its international organization, DB Schenker Rail offers efficient transport solutions in the block train, single car system and intermodal segments. The Steel & Coal; Chemicals & Mineral Oil; Building Materials, Industrial and Consumer Goods; Intermodal; and Automotive Industry Segments are its core areas.

DB Schenker Rail operates some 5,000 freight trains a day. Transport performance totaled 106 billion metric ton-kilometers and DB Schenker Rail shipped 398.7 million metric tons of freight in 2012. DB Schenker Rail has the largest fleet in Europe, which comprises around 101,300 freight cars and 2,913 locomotives – a high percentage of which are multi-system locomotives used internationally. Almost 60 percent of freight trains already cross at least one border.

Facts and figures about the Transportation and Logistics Division of Deutsche Bahn:  

• Over 100,000 truck journeys: DB’s freight trains take the equivalent of over 100,000 truck journeys off the roads every day, thus avoiding 4.4 million metric tons of CO2 emissions annually. 
• 11,000 kilometers: The longest rail route traveled by DB. Automotive parts are shipped along this corridor connecting Leipzig, Germany, and Shenyang in Northeast China on behalf of BMW.
• 4,000 metric tons: The weight of the heaviest freight trains. These trains transport iron ore from ports on the North Sea to steel mills in Germany.
• Six million automobiles: DB Schenker’s contract logistics specialists collaborate on the production of six million automobiles each year. Over 3,300 automobiles are shipped daily on ocean-going vessels.
• 6 million square meters: the area of state-of-the art logistics facilities operated by DB Schenker worldwide.
• 64.4 million metric tons: the approximate amount of steel transported by DB Schenker Rail Deutschland in 2011. 
• 250 trains with finished vehicles and supplier parts travel through Europe daily. The automotive experts at DB Schenker see to it that three million vehicles are delivered by rail each year.
• 32,000 regular scheduled services per week are offered by DB Schenker Land Transport. The network of scheduled transports links Europe’s most important economic regions.
• With 1,200 of its own charter flights each year, DB Schenker Air Freight offers its customers sufficient capacity for the fast global exchange of goods.