'Danzas' was a freight company. It was founded in 1815 and is based in
Basel,
Switzerland. It was acquired by
Deutsche Post World Net in 2000, who have integrated it with
DHL, first as "DHL/Danzas Air and Ocean" and now as "DHL Global Forwarding".
Louis Danzas fought at
Waterloo for
Napoleon. 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 in 1846. A Basel branch was opened in 1854.
The company began to use air transport in 1920 between
France and
England, and opened its own freight terminal in
Paris in 1962.
At the time of integration with DHL, Danzas was the world leader in air freight and ranked second in ocean freight. Overland transport and supply chain management completed the Danzas service portfolio.
External link
★ http://www.dhl.co.uk/publish/gb/en/about/history.high.html