DHL remains leader in an air freight market seriously affected by the crisis

The decline in global trade volume had an especially serious effect on the air freight market. IATA reports a 10.1% decline in market volume measured in freight tonne kilometres, whilst DHL registered a decline of approximately 13%. A direct comparison of these two figures, however, cannot be made because the IATA figures do not include data on charter flights and non-IATA carriers like CargoLux. DHL remains the market leader in both cases.

Increased global presence in ocean freight market

We are the global leader in both less-than-container-load (LCL) and full-container-load (FCL) shipments. However, the ocean freight business also suffered from the sharp drop in world trade. According to our estimations, the market volume decreased between 12% and 13% in 2009. By contrast, our volumes only declined by roughly 9%, which allowed us to increase our market share.