Comment / Supply Chain Radar: A Deutsche dilemma - how DB funding will impact Schenker

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Surprise surprise: Deutsche Bahn’s funding needs are under the spotlight, impacting the corporate plans of some of its core operating subsidiaries.

Uphill

So, just a quick update from me today on state-owned Deutsche Bahn and its troubles, following market reports that one of the major global freight forwarders and logistics companies, DB Schenker – owned by Deutsche Bahn and the parent’s largest revenue contributor – might be exploited to shore up the balance sheet of Deutsche Bahn.

Transport Intelligence reported this week that “the state-owned rail network and owner of major ...