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DHL Global Forwarding, formerly known as DHL Danzas Air & Ocean, is a 
The Forwarding division carries goods by rail, road, air and sea under the DHL brand and includes the DHL Freight operation which runs a ground-based freight network covering
DHL Global Forwarding, formerly known as DHL Danzas Air & Ocean, is a division
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of Deutsche Post DHL
The Deutsche Post AG, operating under the trade name Deutsche Post DHL Group, is a German multinational package delivery and supply chain management company headquartered in Bonn, Germany. It is one of the world's largest courier companies. T ...
providing air and ocean freight forwarding services. It also plans and undertakes major logistics projects under the brand name DHL Industrial Projects.
Together with DHL Freight
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, it forms Deutsche Post's Freight/Forwarding department.
The Forwarding division carries goods by rail, road, air and sea under the DHL brand and includes the DHL Freight operation which runs a ground-based freight network covering Europe
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, Russia
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and traffic into the Middle East. In 2016, this division's revenue declined by 7.7 percent to €13.7 billion but earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) improved from -€181 million in 2015 to +€287 million.
History
Danzas was founded in 1815 and was originally based in Saint-Louis,Alsace
Alsace (, ; ; Low Alemannic German/ gsw-FR, Elsàss ; german: Elsass ; la, Alsatia) is a cultural region and a territorial collectivity in eastern France, on the west bank of the upper Rhine next to Germany and Switzerland. In 2020, it had ...
, France.
Louis Danzas fought at Waterloo for Napoleon
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. After that battle, he joined a transport company owned by Michel l'Eveque and by 1840 became joint owner. The company, Danzas and l'Eveque, obtained a mail delivery franchise from Le Havre
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to New York City
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in 1846. A Basel branch was opened in 1854.
The company began to use air transport in 1920 between France
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and England
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, and opened its own freight terminal in Paris
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in 1962.
In 2000, Deutsche Post World Net
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acquired Danzas. When Deutsche Post AG acquired 100% of DHL
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in 2002, it fully integrated Danzas, DHL and EuroExpress under the DHL brand, thus renaming Danzas to DHL Danzas Air & Ocean.http://www.dpdhl.com/content/dam/dpdhl/dpdhl/investoren/en/investoren/publikationen/archiv/archiv/finanzpublikationen/dpwn_annual_report_2002_en.pdf
In 2005, Deutsche Post dropped the Danzas brand and renamed the business unit DHL Global Forwarding/DHL Freight.
In 2006, it also combined parts of Danzas and other ground-based freight subsidiaries in its Global Forwarding, Freight division.
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