It had been since 2009, at the height of the crisis economic and financial situation, when the decline was -3.6%, which the logistics group DSV did not report a decrease in turnover annual. But you have to go back to 2022 to find a decline in turnover, even if it is not as relevant as the one charged in 2023. Last year, in fact, the The Danish group generated a turnover of almost €150.8 billion Danish kroner (€20.2 billion), with a sharp decrease -36.0% on the 2022 financial year. In 2023, the most A significant reduction was recorded in the revenues generated by the the group's air and sea freight forwarding activities, which amounted to SEK 93.0 billion (-46.7%), of which SEK 50.6 billion billion (-44.1%) produced by air shipments and 42.4 billion (-49.5%) from sea shipments. Decreasing, more revenues from road shipments and other logistics solutions operated by DSV that were equal to to SEK 38.2 billion (-8.1%) and SEK 23.1 billion respectively (-5.2%).

Last year, the group recorded an operating margin gross profit of SEK 23.0 billion (-24.0%) and an operating profit of €17.7 billion (-29.7%), with a contribution of €13.4 billion from air and sea shipments (-35.3%), of €2.0 billion from road shipments (-1.5%) and €2.4 billion from other activities logistics (-12.8%). Group net profit stood at 12.4 billion crowns, a decrease of -29.8% on 2022.

In 2023, the volume of air shipments handled by DSV is more than 2.5 million tonnes of cargo (-5.5%) and that of maritime shipments amounted to 1.3 million container teu (-16.2%).

In the fourth quarter of last year alone, air shipments amounted to 337 thousand tonnes, with a decrease of -8.5% over the corresponding period of 2022, and maritime shipments to 635 thousand TEUs (+1.5%). Revenues decreased by -28.7% to 36.5 billion crowns, with declines of -39.2% in Air and sea freight sales, -7.0% shipments by road and -2.3% of revenues from other logistics solutions.