In the third quarter of this year, the Swiss logistics group Kuehne+Nagel has made marked progress both in the economic field and operational, with a growth in results that has been determined by the improvement of performance in all main business segments. The company closed on period with gross sales of CHF 8.31 billion (nine billion euros), up +16.4% on the third quarter of 2025, and with net sales of CHF 7.39 billion (+22,2%). EBITDA stood at 622 million (+28.8%), operating profit at 435 million (+52.6%) and profit net to CHF 316 million (+53.4%).

In the maritime shipping segment alone, which in the period July-September 2026 handled loads of 1.16 million TEU containers (+4.5%), net sales were amounted to €2.70 billion (+20.3%), EBITDA to €168 million (+27.3%) and EBIT to €172 million (+55.0%). Even more pronounced was the performance of the air freight segment, which handled 619 thousand tons of goods (+9.8%), recording a net sales of €2.38 billion (+38.2%), EBITDA of €183 million (+72.6%) and EBIT of €169 million (+83.7%). In the Road shipments Net sales were 1.01 billion (+13.9%), EBITDA of 45 million (+21.6%) and EBIT of 28 billion CHF million (+40.0%). The contract sector Logistics totaled net sales of 1.30 billion (+8.9%), EBITDA of €266 million (+11.3%) and EBIT of €66 million (+6,5%).