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Growth 6Transformation 29Decline 16
Key figures
+1,200new jobs announcedfrom 2 reports · since Jul 2026
19,323affected by layoffs and closuresfrom 12 reports · since Mar 2025
Largest expansions
- Amazon converts Pforzheim site into robotics hub, adding 1,000 jobs+1,000 New jobs ·
- DPD Ireland invests €10m in second Dublin depot, adding 200 jobs+200 New jobs ·
Largest job cuts
- DHL to cut 8,000 jobs at Post & Parcel Germany8,000 Affected staff ·
- DB Cargo chief says turnaround needs major job cuts6,000 Affected staff ·
- Royal Mail to cut up to 2,500 head office jobs2,500 Affected staff ·
Countries
| Country | Entries | New jobs | Affected staff |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇩🇪 Germany | 23 | +1,000 | 14,018 |
| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | 5 | — | 2,500 |
| 🇨🇭 Switzerland | 4 | — | 1,745 |
| 🇫🇷 France | 4 | — | 500 |
| 🇵🇱 Poland | 4 | — | — |
Follow-up
Followed up: 9 of 9 announcements older than six months.
Documented outcome: completed: 2, scaled back: 1.
Relocated abroad, to: 🇹🇭 Thailand.
All outcomes and relocations →
Open cases
- Uber and Delivery Hero agree combination at €41.50 per shareNext milestone: 5 Nov 2026
- Management buyout team bids €8.00 per share for Irish Continental GroupNext milestone: 10 Nov 2026
- Mutares receives Quiver offer for delivery platform StuartNext milestone: 31 Dec 2026
- A.P. Moller Capital to take majority stake in port operator EuroportsNext milestone: 31 Mar 2027
- Prologis raises takeover offer for Segro to £14bnNext milestone: 30 Jun 2027
Sums of the reports recorded in the tracker since recording began, not a complete picture of the labour market.
2026
- Contship acquires Tarros Group through Sogemar · Mergers · 🇮🇹 Italy / Germany
- Mutares receives Quiver offer for delivery platform Stuart · Mergers · 🇩🇪 Germany / France
- NewCold opens €70m automated cold store in Ferentino · Expansions · 🇮🇹 Italy
- Bunge and CM Holding to take over Gdynia grain terminal · Mergers · 🇵🇱 Poland
- Royal Mail to cut up to 2,500 head office jobs · Layoffs · 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- A.P. Moller Capital to take majority stake in port operator Euroports · Mergers · 🇧🇪 Belgium / Denmark
- InfraRed to buy rail freight operator Hector Rail from Ancala · Mergers · 🇸🇪 Sweden / Germany
- InPost cash offer: 89.81% of shares tendered · Mergers · 🇵🇱 Poland / Netherlands
- VTG agrees to sell VTG Rail UK to pension scheme USS · Mergers · 🇬🇧 United Kingdom / Germany
- Kombiverkehr takes full ownership of Spain's Combiberia · Mergers · 🇩🇪 Germany / Spain
- Viking Life-Saving ends production near Plovdiv, cutting 57 jobs · Closures · 🇧🇬 Bulgaria
- SBB to fold SBB Cargo back into the group from January 2027 · Mergers · 🇨🇭 Switzerland
- HGK to anchor new logistics centre in the Port of Hamburg · Expansions · 🇩🇪 Germany
- DP World to build EUR 48 million cold-chain hub in Port of Antwerp · Expansions · 🇧🇪 Belgium
- Baumann Spedition files for self-administered restructuring · Closures · 🇩🇪 Germany
- Amazon converts Pforzheim site into robotics hub, adding 1,000 jobs · Expansions · 🇩🇪 Germany
- DHL eCommerce to take over parcel group Venipak in the Baltics · Mergers · 🇩🇪 Germany / Lithuania / Latvia / Estonia
- Management buyout team bids €8.00 per share for Irish Continental Group · Mergers · 🇮🇪 Ireland
- Dawsongroup to acquire Irish rental firm Dan Ryan Truck Rental · Mergers · 🇮🇪 Ireland / United Kingdom
- Prologis raises takeover offer for Segro to £14bn · Mergers · 🇬🇧 United Kingdom / USA
- DPD Ireland invests €10m in second Dublin depot, adding 200 jobs · Expansions · 🇮🇪 Ireland
- Uber and Delivery Hero agree combination at €41.50 per share · Mergers · 🇩🇪 Germany / USA
- CE Industries and Auctor buy 49.99% of OT Logistics · Mergers · 🇨🇿 Czech Republic / Poland
- Fenniarail to get new depot and headquarters in Kouvola by autumn 2027 · Expansions · 🇫🇮 Finland
- LDz Cargo to cut 300 jobs at Latvia's rail freight arm · Layoffs · 🇱🇻 Latvia
- Uber raises Delivery Hero stake to nearly 37% · Mergers · 🇩🇪 Germany
- VTG to close Großräschen wagon maintenance plant at end-2026 · Closures · 🇩🇪 Germany
- Hapag-Lloyd unit HGT to acquire 20% of Eurogate's CTH terminal · Mergers · 🇩🇪 Germany
- SBB Cargo overhauls single-wagonload freight, about 200 staff affected · Layoffs · 🇨🇭 Switzerland
- Union says DB Cargo plans majority sale of two intermodal subsidiaries · Mergers · 🇩🇪 Germany
- VR plans to cut up to 110 jobs in logistics and maintenance · Layoffs · 🇫🇮 Finland
- METRANS acquires 50% of Arad South terminal in Romania · Mergers · 🇷🇴 Romania
- DB Cargo chief says turnaround needs major job cuts · Layoffs · 🇩🇪 Germany
- MODAL Group acquires pressure-equipment specialist SOMAP Technologies · Mergers · 🇫🇷 France
- CMA CGM completes acquisition of Freightliner UK · Mergers · 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- UPS to cut up to 30,000 jobs as Amazon volumes decline · Layoffs · 🇺🇸 USA
- FedEx to cut up to 500 jobs in France while investing €78m · Layoffs · 🇫🇷 France
- Green Cargo to cut about 115 full-time posts in Sweden · Layoffs · 🇸🇪 Sweden
- SPS Switzerland to close its Kriens site, affecting 45 jobs · Closures · 🇨🇭 Switzerland
- Zalando to close its Erfurt logistics centre, affecting 2,700 jobs · Layoffs · 🇩🇪 Germany
2025
- Olavion to acquire 60% of Siegburg rail company RBP · Mergers · 🇵🇱 Poland / Germany
- Train Alliance buys Landskrona harbour shipyard site for SEK 485m · Mergers · 🇸🇪 Sweden
- Stadtwerke Baden-Baden to cut 18 bus-driver jobs · Layoffs · 🇩🇪 Germany
- Aichach-Friedberg district agrees to AVV joining Munich's MVV · Mergers · 🇩🇪 Germany
- CMA CGM seeks 20 per cent stake in Container Terminal Hamburg · Mergers · 🇫🇷 France / Germany
- DB Cargo sells about 6,000 freight wagons to GATX and leases them back · Mergers · 🇩🇪 Germany
- CER Cargo Group to buy Austrian rail freight firm Wiener Lokalbahnen Cargo · Mergers · 🇦🇹 Austria / Hungary
- METRANS plans to take 27% of Hamm freight agency EANG · Mergers · 🇩🇪 Germany
- Kühne+Nagel to cut up to 1,500 jobs worldwide · Layoffs · 🇨🇭 Switzerland
- Latvijas dzelzceļš merges two subsidiaries into LDZ CARGO · Mergers · 🇱🇻 Latvia
- DHL to cut 8,000 jobs at Post & Parcel Germany · Layoffs · 🇩🇪 Germany