Schenker AG is a German

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company and a subsidiary of

Deutsche Bahn The (; abbreviated as DB or DB AG) is the national railway company of Germany. Headquartered in the Bahntower in Berlin, it is a joint-stock company ( AG). The Federal Republic of Germany is its single shareholder. describes itself as the se ...

, 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 DB Cargo (previously known as Railion and DB Schenker Rail) is an international transport and logistics company. It is responsible for all of the rail freight transport activities of the German railway company Deutsche Bahn (the DB Group) bo ...

brand.

Performance

Schenker has roughly 72,000 employees at some 2,000 offices around the world and has a turnover of 14.943 billion € per year. DB Logistics claims to be:DB-Konzern - Profile
/ref> * No. 1 in European land transport * No. 3 in worldwide air transport * No. 3 in worldwide sea transport * No. 5 in worldwide contract logistics

History

Gottfried Schenker Gottfried Schenker (14 February 1842 in Däniken, Canton of Solothurn, Switzerland – 26 November 1901 in Vienna) was the founder of Schenker AG. Vienna At the age of 30, Schenker together with two partners founded the freight forwarding comp ...

founded Schenker & Co. in

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, in 1872. In 1931, Schenker was acquired by the German Railways (

Reichsbahn The ''Deutsche Reichsbahn'', also known as the German National Railway, the German State Railway, German Reich Railway, and the German Imperial Railway, was the German national railway system created after the end of World War I from the regiona ...

). After Hitler came to power in 1933, the Nazis placed Dr. Edmund Veesenmayer, on the board. During the Nazi era, the Schenker Company was "one of the most important enterprises engaged in pillage and plunder during German aggressions and mass crimes throughout Europe in the period from 1938 to 1945." The Schenker papers, which recorded shipping via Schenker of Nazi looted art, were discovered by British Monuments Man Douglas Cooper and enabled researchers to track down some of the artworks stolen from Jews during the Holocaust. In 2003, Schenker became a wholly owned

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, when DB acquired

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. 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

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hub in

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. DB Schenker launched Schenker Ventures, its own venture capital arm to invest in innovation in the logistics industry, in 2021. The next year, Schenker Ventures announced its first investment in German logistics startup Warehousing1.

Special Tasks

* Schenker was the official carrier of the 1972

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, 2000 in

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and 2002 in

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. * Schenker supports the

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exhibitions worldwide. A particular challenge was the realization of the exhibition in

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(

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), 2009. * At the

EfeuCampus {{Short description, Urban logistics campus) EfeuCampus (eco-friendly experimental urban logistics campus) based in Bruchsal, is Germany's first research area for urban, autonomous and emission free freight logistics on the last mile ("LastMileCit ...

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Schenker is testing with partners such as

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, KIT or

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on emission free and autonomous for urban freight logistics. The

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is funded by the

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and the state

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.''„Ein Geschäftsführer kann die Oberbürgermeisterin auch mal an einem Sonntag anrufen“''

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, September 2021 (German)

References

External links

*
About Schenker from its website

"Bax Goes Schenker" campaign on merging Bax Global with Schenker
* {{Authority control Logistics companies of Germany pl:Schenker