One year after the announcement of the intention to evaluate the possible sale of up to 100% of the company's share capital ( of 15 December 2022), yesterday the German railway group Deutsche Bahn (DB) has officially started the process for the sale of the own logistics company DB Schenker, which has around 76,600 Employees spread across more than 1,850 locations in over 130 and a fleet of approximately 33,700 vehicles. DB has confirmed that A large part of the proceeds from the sale will be used to reduce the group's indebtedness and specified that the sale of the would allow Deutsche Bahn to focus on its core rail transport business.

The DB Group closed the 2022 financial year with revenues of to €56.3 billion, an increase of +19.1% over the year of which €27.6 billion contributed by DB Schenker (+20.3%) and 60% of the revenues generated by the air and sea shipping, 28% from the activities of land transport and 12% deriving from contract logistics. The EBITDA and EBIT of €5.2 billion and over €1.2 billion respectively, with DB Schenker's contributions of €2.5 billion and more €1.8 billion.