Intermodal Solutions

The Best of Both Worlds

Why limit yourself to one transport mode when you can utilize air freight for one part of the journey and then consolidate your shipments in a container for the rest? When done right, intermodal offers a less expensive – but no less reliable – transport option that leverages air freight’s speed and ocean’s lower costs.

Moving Fast and Within Budget

If you need to meet tight delivery deadlines while staying within budget, get the best of both worlds with an intermodal solution that blends ocean and air freight. By combining the two, you get a single, streamlined shipping approach that maximizes the biggest advantages of both options, including:

Lower transportation costs
High levels of reliability
Door-to-door convenience of truckload shipping
Long-haul economy of ocean freight
Less freight handling
Shorter transit times
Less need for warehousing
Good supply chain visibility
A completely optimized shipping process

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We deliver solutions

With DB SCHENKERskybridge, we optimize your freight forwarding route and help you meet tight delivery deadlines while saving money on shipping costs. Our experts are standing by, waiting to customize a sea-air solution that meets your company’s specific requirements.

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Economies of Ocean + Speed of Air Freight

When you need a cost-effective shipping option that’s faster than ocean alone, combining sea and air is the answer. Maximize the synergies of air and ocean freight; transport your goods up to half the transit time of ocean freight and half the cost of air freight.

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With our tailor-made solutions and vast experience of our procurement team, you can trust your charter service needs are in great hands.

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Flight Operations

Use DB Schenker’s track record of success to synchronize and optimize your supply chain by letting DB Schenker handle your transport needs.

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Intercontinental Supply Chain Solutions (ISC)

DB Schenker's Intercontinental Supply Chain Solutions (ISC) portfolio includes all of the products you need to optimize your global supply chain.

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Our Sensor Technology

DB SCHENKERsmartbox creates synergy in your supply chain by utilizing a well-established network of cooperating partners. A unique service within all modes of freight forwarding transportation.

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Creating and implementing quality standards for the worldwide air cargo industry.

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DB Schenker and our partners adhere to existing global, regional and local security laws and regulations while maintaining our customer service commitments.

Industry-specific Solutions

As one of the leading providers of logistics solutions across the globe, DB Schenker has an immense portfolio of transport and contract logistics solutions that spans multiple industries. As such, we’re experts in identifying the challenges specific to your industry.

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Aerospace & Defense

The Aerospace & Defense industry requires innovative supply chain solutions for their unique demands and requirements.

Marine Parts

We find the fastest route for you to any port, from the factory gate directly to your vessel. Our services include order processing, procurement, inventory and project management, bidding and flexible shipping.

Electronics

With multiparty platforms, we improve planning and collaboration within your supply chain to accelerate the flow of materials and finished products.

eSchenker: It's so easy

eSchenker is our most advanced logistic solution yet. It incorporates all eServices into one portal, giving you maximum support at every stage of your supply chain. From tracking and scheduling to booking and reporting, eSchenker has your logistics covered.

Tracking

The easy-to-use eSchenker tracking tool gives you real-time information about the location and status of your shipment, and its current estimated time of delivery. Allocation of a tracking number means that you can access detailed shipment data online without having to log in. Our tracking technology has now been upgraded with an even more detailed overview and status information for each of your shipments.

Short-term warehousing

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The Coronavirus pandemic has hit global supply chains with full force. Due to changing consumer behavior, stranded shipping containers are piling up in seaports with goods that can no longer be sold due to changing consumer behavior. In addition, growing consumer demand for certain goods, for example in the food or health sector, has led to an increase in production. This has two consequences: Currently unsaleable items need to be stored temporarily and companies are having to build up safety stocks to avoid interruptions in supply.

Logistics automation at its best

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DB Schenker is now responsible for MediaMarkt Sweden's logistics for online sales and store deliveries from the Arlandastad logistics center near Stockholm.

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Partnering with Magento

DB Schenker is offering a powerful new extension to equip small and mid-size merchants at Magento, one of the world's leading providers of e-commerce platforms. The Partnership evolved from increasing customer demand for web-shop order tracking.

Empowering global e-commerce

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DB Schenker provides its customers with access to over a hundred marketplaces globally by partnering with leading SaaS platform provider, ChannelAdvisor.

Inventing the digitized warehouse

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DB Schenker and Cisco, the worldwide leader in networking for the internet, are collaborating to change the face of the logistics industry.

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Virtual Reality boosts employee training

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Serious Gaming: In collaboration with the Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics DB Schenker has developed an employee training course as a VR digital game.

Exoskeletons

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DB Schenker has extensively investigated the use of exoskeletons at several logistics locations in Germany, in order to relieve warehouse personnel of physically-demanding tasks in the long term.

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Logistics Orchestrator

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Taking aftermarket logistics to the next level

Intermodal Solutions

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