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Comment / Supply chain radar: DB Schenker – the caged bear sharpens claws for the fight

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So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from hell?
Blue skies from pain?
Can you tell a green field
From a cold steel rail?

Wish you were here, Pink Floyd, 1975

If we ever needed confirmation that 2020 was staggering for all the major freight forwarders, yesterday’s results from DB Schenker* proved just that.

(*Included in the dreadful, preliminary figures released by parent Deutsche Bahn (DB); as usual, full annual results are expected to be released in ...

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