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By Alessandro Pasetti

05/11/2024

If you have followed our DeskOne live coverage of the conference call that followed the Q3 24 release of DHL Group’s results today, you may well be aware that headline group numbers were, as expected, broadly in line with preliminary figures released last week.

A couple of substantial add-ons…

… however follow, for your perusal: air freight performance in DHL Global Forwarding (GF) was disappointing in terms of gross profit (GP) per unit, despite solid volume growth, as the “GP development versus our ...

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