Deutsche Bahn failed its goals in 2015
DB Schenker reports EUR 15,45 billion and adjusted EBIT up 19% to EUR 395 million
At EUR 40.5 billion, DB’s revenues in 2015 were up EUR 748 million, or 1.9%, from the year prior. At EUR 1.76 billion, adjusted EBIT was down EUR 350 million, or 16.6%, from the previous year’s figure. Due in part to special write-downs in rail freight transport and non-recurring items as a result of the restructuring process – which together amounted to some EUR 1.67 billion – DB posted a net loss for the year of EUR 1.3 billion.
In the rail freight sector, DB’s volume fell by 4.3% year on year, to 98.4 billion metric ton kilometers.
Business at DB Schenker saw a positive trend, with the number of European land transport consignments up 2.9% and air freight volumes up 1.4%. Contract logistics again saw a strong increase in revenues of some 17%. Only ocean freight saw lower volumes, with a drop of 2.1%.
Deutsche Bahn made progress in environmental protection in 2015, raising the percentage of renewables in traction power by 2.4 percentage points to 42.0%. The company also retrofitted more than 6,000 freight cars with whisper brakes, raising the total number of retrofitted freight cars by a good 90% year on year. By the end of this year, half of all DB’s freight cars will be retrofitted; by 2020, all of them.