Headquarters Essen, Germany Founded March 1872 | Founder Gottfried Schenker | |
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Parent organizations Deutsche Bahn, DB Mobility Logistics AG Subsidiaries DB Schenker Logistics, Schenker AE | ||
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Schenker AG is a German logistics company and a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn, the German railway company. Within DB Logistics, the logistics branch of Deutsche Bahn, Schenker is responsible for land, sea, and air transport and contract logistics. Rail transport within DB Logistics is done under the DB Schenker Rail brand.
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Performance
Schenker has roughly 65,000 employees at some 2,000 offices around the world and has a turnover of 14.943 billion € per year.
DB Logistics claims to be:
History
Gottfried Schenker founded Schenker & Co. in Vienna, Austria, in 1872. In 2003, Schenker became a wholly owned subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn, when DB acquired Stinnes AG.
On 31 January 2006, DB Logistics acquired BAX Global for $1.1 billion and is currently being merged country by country with Schenker.
In 2010, DB Schenker opened a major new intermodal transport hub in Salzburg.