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“One World, One Dream” – it is under this motto that, on the 8th of August 2008, at 8 pm, athletes from all over the world will be converging to compete in 28 disciplines at the XXIX Olympic Summer Games in China. Behind the scenes, the team of DB Schenkersportseventsis providing professional services to facilitate top athletic performance. DB Schenker is providing services for the Olympics in Beijing and six other Chinese cities as the Exclusive Supplier for Freight Forwarding and Customs Clearance.

A mixed team consisting of more than 800 employees from DB Schenker in China and DB Schenkersportseventscontribute their decades of experience towards ensuring that athletes, spectators, event hosts, sponsors and the media enjoy optimum conditions at the Olympics and other large-scale events.

The job encompasses the entire range of freight forwarding services: from planning air and ocean freight capacities to customs clearance, from services at the Olympic village to deliveries to the high-security areas of the Olympic complex – everything is tailored specifically to this mega-event. In addition to television companies and press agencies, DB Schenker’s customers include a large number of the National Olympic committees as well as sponsors and suppliers. The experts of DB Schenkersportsevents are responsible for transporting all of the sailing boats to the sailing competitions in Qingdao. Most of the sports equipment left the countries of origin in containers bound for China back at the end of April. In July, the German Olympic team's baggage has been transported to the Olympic Games by air freight. For the Olympic Games alone, DB Schenker will be carrying around 1,500 TEUs of container shipments by ship and 2,500 metric tons by air to China from all over the world. And nearly all of it will have to be immediately sent back at the close of the Olympics.