{"id":11973,"date":"2025-08-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/db-cargo-improved-its-financial-performance-despite-a-drop-in-cargo-turnover\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T00:00:00","slug":"db-cargo-improved-its-financial-performance-despite-a-drop-in-cargo-turnover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/db-cargo-improved-its-financial-performance-despite-a-drop-in-cargo-turnover\/","title":{"rendered":"DB Cargo improved its financial performance despite a drop in cargo turnover."},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>The freight division of the German railway corporation Deutsche Bahn \u2014 DB Cargo \u2014 ended the first half of 2025 with an EBITDA operating profit of 70 million euros. For comparison: a year earlier this figure was negative \u2014 minus 53 million euros. The operating loss according to EBIT also decreased significantly \u2014 from 256 million to 96 million euros.<\/p>\n<p>Financial progress was achieved against the backdrop of a decrease in business volumes: the company\u2019s revenue decreased by 9%, freight turnover \u2014 by 16%, and loading volumes \u2014 by 11% compared to the same period in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The downward trend continues: if before the pandemic, from 2016 to mid-2019, the drop in freight turnover was 8.5%, and loading volumes \u2014 12.7%, then over the past 2.5 years, these figures reached 31.1% and 27%, respectively.<\/p>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The freight division of the German railway corporation Deutsche Bahn \u2014 DB Cargo \u2014 ended the first half of 2025 with an EBITDA operating profit of 70 million euros. For comparison: a year earlier this figure was negative \u2014 minus 53 million euros. The operating loss according to EBIT also decreased significantly \u2014 from 256 million to 96 million euros.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}