As an enabler of global trade, Deutsche Post DHL Group employs approximately 5,70,000 people in over 220 countries and territories worldwide. Its Global Forwarding Freight division ended 2019 as the leader in the air freight market with 1.9 million tonnes air freight export and ranked second in the ocean freight market with 3.2 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU).
by SANJAY BAKSHIDeutsche Post DHL Group is the world’s leading logistics company that connects people and markets. The Group owns two major brands – DHL and Deutsche Post. While the later is Europe’s leading postal and parcel service provider, DHL offers a comprehensive range of parcel and international express service, freight transport, and supply chain management services, as well as e-commerce logistics solutions. From a government-controlled deficit-ridden national agency, known as Deutsche Bundespost (1990), to a profitable European mail and parcel service provider called Deutsche Post DHL Group, the company has steadily covered its journey to become the global logistics market leader traded on the stock exchange. Deutsche Post AG went public in November 2000 and has been listed on the DAX 30 (Germany) since March 2001. In September 2013, Deutsche Post AG additionally joined the Euro Stoxx 50 Index.