The European Logistics business line increased its revenue by 13.4%, growing at roughly the same rate as it did in 2021. In contrast, the number of shipments fell by 3.5%. Tonnage held constant at 30.0m. The Food Logistics business line saw major growth in 2022, with revenue increasing by 17.1%. As a catch-up effect after coronavirus-related restrictions had been lifted, there were slight increases in both shipments (+1.8%) and tonnage (+1.1%) in this business line. DACHSER Food Logistics generated revenue of €1.3b in the past financial year and thus remains a stable and reliable pillar of the business model.
Following the revenue growth in 2021, last year’s greater capacity in air and sea freight and the sputtering growth in China ensured that growth in the Air and Sea Logistics business field settled at a lower level. Here, DACHSER closed out the year with a 16.7% increase in revenue from €2.b to €2.4b, even as the number of shipments fell by a total of 7.3%.
“During the coronavirus pandemic, our air and sea freight business raised its profile significantly,” Eling said. “Contributing factors were the expansion of the LCL groupage business in sea freight and the air freight charter network, which operated 260 flights last year alone. Our customers appreciate how deeply integrated our services are—on land, at sea, and in the air. We intend to strengthen this USP even further in the future.”
Business with contract logistics—the intelligent combination of warehousing, value-added services, and transport—developed very positively. In 2022, DACHSER offered its contract logistics customers 2.7m pallet spaces, around 152,000 more than in the previous year. The company currently has 163 warehouse locations on four continents, with plans to add 14 more facilities in 2023.
Eling stated the company intends to continue on its chosen course in 2023 and announced that, following the €196m it invested in 2022, it plans to invest over €300m in 2023. DACHSER has already started the new year with the acquisition of the Dutch food logistics company Müller and the air and sea freight forwarder ACA International, which is based in Melbourne, Australia.
The year has started cautiously with comparatively low transport volumes, but DACHSER sees no cause for concern. “We expect that after two years of exceptional revenue growth, but also exceptional burdens on the operational teams, 2023 will now see a return to a bit of normality in logistics and in our business,” Eling said in Munich.
Source: DACHSER
