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DHL Global Forwarding, formerly known as DHL Danzas Air & Ocean, is a division of 
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 of Deutsche Post DHL
Deutsche Post AG (), trade name, trading as DHL Group, is a German multinational corporation, multinational package delivery and supply chain management company headquartered in Bonn, Germany. It is one of the world's largest courier companies ...
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, 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 (, ; ) is a cultural region and a territorial collectivity in the Grand Est administrative region of northeastern France, on the west bank of the upper Rhine, next to Germany and Switzerland. In January 2021, it had a population of 1,9 ...
, 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
Le Havre is a major port city in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy (administrative region), Normandy region of northern France. It is situated on the right bank of the estuary of the Seine, river Seine on the English Channel, Channe ...
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 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.
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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