# DB Schenker

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/db-schenker/  
**Website:** https://www.dbschenker.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 4

DB Schenker (Schenker AG, headquartered in Essen, Germany) is one of the world's largest freight forwarders and contract logistics providers, moving air, ocean, land and rail freight and running warehousing for shippers across roughly 1,850 locations. As a forwarder it sits in the intermediation layer of the supply chain — between the shipper who owns the cargo and the carriers, terminals and customs authorities who move and clear it — buying capacity it does not own and reselling visibility it did not have to publish. Its API posture is honestly a customer-contract posture, not a public developer posture. Deutsche Bahn sold DB Schenker to DSV A/S, completing 30 April 2025, and as of this profile www.dbschenker.com 301-redirects to dsv.com while the global developer portal at api-portal.dbschenker.com answers HTTP 410 Gone. The one DB Schenker-branded machine-readable API surface still live is the Nordic parcel "Partner services API" at parcelservices-se.dbschenker.com/Apipartner, which publishes four Swagger 2.0 documents openly but returns 401 on every operation without HTTP Basic credentials issued against a signed Swedish transport agreement. Its EDI endpoints are proprietary JSON, not EDIFACT or X12, and no DCSA, IATA ONE Record, GS1 EPCIS or WCO Data Model conformant contract was found on any reachable host.

## Kin Score — 23.3 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 23.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 49.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 16.7 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 15.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## APIs (4)

- **DB Schenker Partner Services API V1** — Version 1 of the Schenker AB (Sweden) Partner services API — the Nordic parcel network surface inherited from Privpak. Nine operations covering service point lookup (DeliveryPoi...
- **DB Schenker Partner Services API V2** — Version 2 of the Schenker AB (Sweden) Partner services API. Four operations: DeliveryPoint/v2 GetServicePoint (by four-digit service point number), GetAllServicePoints and GetNe...
- **DB Schenker Partner Services API V3** — Version 3 of the Schenker AB (Sweden) Partner services API, adding the parcel-box surface used in e-commerce checkout. Six operations across DeliveryPoint/v3: GetServicePoint, G...
- **DB Schenker Partner Services API V4** — Version 4 of the Schenker AB (Sweden) Partner services API, the current CollectionPoint surface (published specification version 4.2.0, document dated 2025-04-23). Six operation...

## Tags

Logistics, Supply Chain, Germany, Freight Forwarding, Parcel, Track and Trace, Customs, Air Cargo, Ocean Freight, Contract Logistics, EDI

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/db-schenker/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.