Explore DHL Global Forwarding’s flexible, cost-efficient ocean freight shipping solutions - from FCL and LCL, to temperature controlled shipments.

DHL Ocean LCL provides you with reliable, fully managed end-to-end transportation, ensuring predictability across your supply chain and helping you deliver on your promises to customers. We offer more direct services cutting transit times to a minimum and avoiding transhipment and double handling.

Explore DHL Global Forwarding’s Ocean Freight FCL, including industry-leading Sustainable Marine Fuel, multiple equipment types and devices.

DHL Multimodal OceanExpress routes your shipment by ocean between Asia (including China, Bangladesh Sri Lanka, and other Far East origins) and a broad network in Europe, with comparable speed to direct rail. Once in Europe, your shipment is moved by road or rail to its final delivery destination.

Get insights on the Ocean Freight industry for the year with the Market Outlook 2025 curated by our experts. Unlock the information to maintain a resilient supply chain and make better-informed decisions.

Only pay for the space you use, save cost by shifting airfreight into LCL and easily access multiple ocean freight options (LCL, Buyer's & Shipper's Consolidation, Multi Country Consolidation).

2024年12月9日 · Find out the latest developments of the global ocean freight market in this monthly analysis by DHL Global Forwarding.

2025年1月17日 · The Red Sea crisis is lasting longer than expected, further squeezing capacity, while port and hinterland infrastructure remain major bottlenecks. With some 6.5m TEU of capacity due to be delivered by 2027, ongoing disruptions will remain the main barrier to significantly softer freight rates.

Our GLOBAL FORWARDING, FREIGHT division comprises international air and ocean freight as well as European overland transportation services. DHL Global Forwarding is the international market leader in the air and ocean freight business.

End of 2M meets the start of Gemini, whose new hub-and-spoke model aims for 90 percent reliability by mid-2025; impact remains to be seen. Apart from regulatory pushes to accelerate green technology adoption, new compliance costs, investments in new fuels, technologies and fleet upgrades may impact shipping rates.