The Forwarding division carries goods by rail, road, air and sea under the DHL brand and includes the DHL Freight operation which runs a ground-based freight network covering Europe, Russia and traffic into the Middle East.

After that battle, he joined a transport company owned by Michel l'Eveque and by 1840 became joint owner.

The company, Danzas, and l'Eveque, obtained a mail delivery franchise from Le Havre to New York City in 1846.

The company began to use air transport in 1920 between France, and England, and opened its own freight terminal in Paris in 1962.

[5] In 2005, Deutsche Post dropped the Danzas brand and renamed the business unit DHL Global Forwarding/DHL Freight.