DB Schenker awarded “Seafreight Forwarder of the year 2008”

News Item Entered: Friday, November 28, 2008

(Shanghai/Singapore, 28th November 2008) At the "2008 Supply Chain Asia Logistics Awards" held in Shanghai on 20th November, DB Schenker received the award for "Seafreight Forwarder of the Year".

Finalists for the awards were chosen by an audited ballot of the 8,700 readers for Supply Chain Asia magazine and via the Supply Chain Asia web portal, with the winner selected also based on a judging panel of 14 experts.

Ms Anja Roennfeldt, Vice-President for Ocean Freight for Asia Pacific, said, “In DB Schenker, our focus is on services performance standard, reliability, speed, accessibility and accountability, which attributed to guiding our teams and staff to meet the expectations of the customers in the ocean freight services. This award is also a testimony to the company’s ability to adapt to the ever changing requirements in the market, in line with the needs of the customers. We thank our customers and all those who voted and supported us to achieve this award.”

With annual sales of 18 billion euros (2007), over 90,000 employees and over 2,000 company locations in all the important economic regions of the globe, DB Schenker stands for the transport and logistics activities of Deutsche Bahn. With DB Schenker, Deutsche Bahn AG enjoys top positions in air and ocean freight worldwide, operates the most concentrated land transport network in Europe and benefits from the rail competence of the first and biggest European freight railroad.