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Air Freight That Delivers On Time, Every Time

In today’s “need it yesterday” business world, air freight plays a critical role in your company’s global supply chain. Every year, more than $6 trillion in goods are carried by air — or $18.6 billion worth of goods daily.

Your customers have set the bar high when it comes to service, responsiveness, and quick fulfillment. Whether you need to ship temperature-sensitive immunizations to patients quickly, get your high-dollar electronics to retailers for a big promotion, or send a critical part to a stalled assembly line within a few hours, air freight is the solution. DB Schenker provides maximum levels of flexibility and optimization for all your air cargo needs.

The fastest way to get goods to their destinations, air freight helps you reach these and other time-sensitive projects by providing fast delivery of cargo while minimizing unexpected delays or obstacles.

Enjoy the Benefits of DB Schenker Air Freight

  • Worldwide network across major global hubs on all continents 
  • Fast and convenient online booking with connect 4.0
  • Capacities on a wide variety of routes including defined scheduling and lead time transparency 
  • Partnership with first class carriers as well as an own controlled carrier network
  • Online tracking combined with visibility solutions, for example with AirTrack


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Rethinking the business of our industry for a carbon-neutral tomorrow

DB Schenker and Lufthansa Cargo are expanding their joint offer of weekly climate-neutral freight flights between Frankfurt, Germany and Shanghai, China.
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AirTrack

There are some products that you don’t want to let out of your sight. With AirTrack, it is as if you were riding along.
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Stable air cargo capacity in an unpredictable market

#OurAnswerIsYES Our Global Flight Network is designed to offer shippers the fastest, most reliable air cargo service to and from key global markets.
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Airfreight Forwarder of the Year 2020

We are especially proud to be named Airfreight Forwarder of the Year 2020 by AirCargoWeek. Thorsten Meincke, Board Member for Air and Ocean Freight, received the award on behalf of the DB Schenker team. “In challenging times, we were able to demonstrate our ability to react flexibly and to provide reliable supply chains”. ­Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have been responding to the market and our customer needs with a large number of charter flights to transport urgently needed goods around the globe.
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Your Business is Our Business

It doesn’t matter what you’re shipping, where your goods are going, or how quickly they need to get there, it’s our business to make your air freight business run smoothly.

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A Strong, Predictable Supply Chain

Build a strong, predictable supply chain backed by DB Schenker’s years of experience in international air freight shipping.

A flexible solution, air freight helps your organization:

  • Put your time-sensitive cargo on the next available departure
  • Leverage better rates by consolidating your shipments with others
  • Save money with deferred shipping options on your lower-priority orders than can wait a few days
  • Minimize handling and potential damage for fragile shipments
  • Reduce warehouse storage costs
  • Gain end-to-end control and visibility over your supply chain 

Our Air Freight Products

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General Air Freight Products

With three air freight shipping solutions, DB SCHENKERjetcargo gives you the speed and reliability you need for your air cargo shipment.

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Charter Services

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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Intermodal Solutions

Get the timeliness of air freight and the cost-effectiveness of ocean freight with DB SCHENKERskybridge - a logistics product that combines the best of both.

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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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Express Products

DB SCHENKERjetxpress is air freight in perfection and at pace. Scheduled connections to more than 120.000 destinations in 220 countries around the globe. You decide how fast we are. Place your trust in DB Schenker, in our planning and handling experience, in the DB Schenker network of worldwide corporate offices, and in our pool of first-class airlines combining maximum presence with optimum transport connections.

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Global Flight Network

Our Global Flight Network is designed to offer shippers the fastest, most reliable air cargo service to and from key global markets.

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Sustainable Air Freight

As an environmental pioneer, sustainability is at the core of how we do business – day in and day out, from city to city, country to country. Beyond delivering shipments and managing supply chains when and where needed, we aim to revolutionize the air freight industry by helping our customers and transportation partners manage their sustainability efforts as well.

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AirTrack

There are some products that you don’t want to let out of your sight. With AirTrack, it is as if you were riding along.

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Special Products

Visibility and Condition Monitoring

Formerly known as the DB SCHENKERsmartbox family, connect2track nowadays offers smart visibility solutions through DB Schenker’s own IoT platform.

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Cargo iQ

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

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Aviation Security

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

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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.

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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.

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Electronics

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

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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.

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High-Speed Delivery of Medical Supplies

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Working with Porsche, DB Schenker, and Lufthansa Cargo, these German state governments are making sure three million face masks, 130,000 pairs of safety glasses, and 60,000 protective suits were delivered to the people who need them most.

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Hundreds of thousands of test kits for Asia

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DB Schenker recently transported Coronavirus test kits on behalf of Korean pharmaceutical manufacturer SD Biosensor. The kits were transported by air freight to countries where the number of people infected with COVID-19 is particularly high, in order to quickly determine whether a person is infected or not. Despite the many flight cancellations, our Korean team was able to support SD Biosensor by shipping diagnostic kits to various destinations worldwide at short notice.

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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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Maximum power for green mobility

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Transport, warehousing, recycling and other services along the supply chain require a high level of expertise in the proper and compliant handling of lithium batteries. This is where DB Schenker comes into play, supporting the industry with a dedicated service for battery logistics to cope with the logistical hurdles.

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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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Creating the warehouse of the future

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DB Schenker has successfully introduced smart glasses from Picavi and scanning gloves from ProGlove in order-picking operations in Germany, in order to increase warehouse efficiency.

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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.

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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.

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