DB Schenker News

Finnish and German authorities approved the acquisition • New Managing Director Mikko Rehtilä

In Finland, we constantly invest in personnel, sustainable logistics properties and equipment, and IT solutions. To cover these, among other things, and the effects of inflation, we will update the land transport prices on October 1, 2021.

As we informed on May 28, 2021, we continue to simplify the structure of DB Schenker's land transportation invoices for fuel shares.

The growth in demand is increasingly affecting the smoothness and costs of UK transports. In particular, the customs clearance process for imports in the UK is much slower than expected.

We continue to simplify the structure of DB Schenker's land transportation invoices for fuel shares. Next up are European land transports, where we will switch to use a single fuel element on July 1, 2021.

As we informed on March 26, 2021, we are simplifying the structure of invoices for domestic parcel and collection point deliveries regarding fuel shares.

We started to simplify the structure of domestic transport invoices of DB Schenker and Vähälä Yhtiöt in 2020, when we switched to using a single fuel element.

After the end of the Brexit transition period UK transports became significantly more complex and caused additional costs

The impacts of UK’s withdrawal from the EU on transports concern mainly customs clearances and related documentation.

The transition period of Britain's separation from the EU ended at the turn of the year. There was less traffic congestion than anticipated, but a significant increase in documentation obligations has congested the customs clearance process.