News / Keynote speaker Frank Appel reinforces DHL denial of global forwarding division sale

There could hardly have been a more unequivocal denial that DHL is looking to quit freight forwarding, than in Deutsche Post-DHL chief executive Frank Appel’s keynote speech on the first day of this year’s Transpacific Maritime conference in Long Beach, California.

Dr Appel outlined the challenges global supply chains face and the innovation projects being developed by the German logistics giant, but he ended: “We are very proud to have been in the freight forwarding business since 1815, we are still very passionate about forwarding and we have ...