DSV Tracking

DSV tracking lets you follow an air, sea, road, or DSV XPress courier shipment from pickup to final delivery using a single reference number. DSV A/S is the world's largest freight forwarder by revenue after its 2025 acquisition of Schenker, and it moves goods across more than 90 countries (DSV, Wikipedia, 2025). Paste your DSV booking ID, shipment ID, air waybill (AWB), bill of lading (B/L), or container number into the tracker at the top of this page to see the latest status, location, and estimated arrival in real time.

DSV Tracking Number Format

A DSV tracking number is the unique reference printed under the barcode on your shipping label, receipt, or booking confirmation. Because DSV is a multimodal freight forwarder rather than a single parcel carrier, it issues several reference types rather than one fixed format, and any of them can be entered into myDSV Track and Trace. The two references DSV uses most are the booking ID (assigned when the shipment is booked) and the shipment ID (assigned when the consignment is created), and you can track with either one (DSV, Online Services, 2024).

DSV booking and shipment IDs are usually numeric strings of roughly 10 to 16 digits. Some labels show a shorter reference that begins with a letter prefix such as "D" or "S" followed by digits, but the prefix alone does not reliably tell you the service or mode, so treat it only as a commonly seen pattern. For air and ocean moves you will more often track with an industry-standard document number: an air waybill (AWB) for air freight, a bill of lading (B/L) for sea freight, or the container number for full-container ocean shipments.

If you are an e-commerce customer, the carrier may also accept your own customer reference (for example, your order number) so you do not need to memorize the internal ID. Where you find the number depends on the document: on a parcel or pallet label it sits under the barcode, on an air shipment it is the AWB on the air waybill, and on an ocean shipment it is the B/L or container number on the bill of lading. If you booked through a webshop, the merchant's confirmation email usually carries the reference DSV will recognize.

DSV Tracking Number Example

The table below shows the main DSV reference types you may be given, their typical length and pattern, and where each one appears. Use whichever reference your document shows; myDSV Track and Trace accepts booking ID, shipment ID, AWB, B/L, container, and customer reference numbers (myDSV Track and Trace, 2024).

Only the formats above are documented; if your label shows a reference that does not match any pattern here, search it as a customer reference rather than assuming the mode from the digits.

DSV Tracking Status Guide

DSV tracking statuses describe each milestone a shipment passes as it moves through air, sea, or road networks, from booking confirmation to proof of delivery. Because DSV reports both planned and actual events, you can often see an estimated arrival before the goods physically move (DSV, Self-services, 2024). The table below explains the statuses you are most likely to encounter and what each one means for your shipment.

What to Do If a DSV Shipment Is Delayed or Not Updating

If a DSV tracking number shows no movement for several days, the most common cause is a normal gap between scans rather than a lost shipment. Ocean freight in particular can sit at "in transit" for two to four weeks while a vessel crosses an ocean, because there is no scan until the ship reaches the next port. Air and road shipments update more often, but a stall at "customs clearance in progress" usually means paperwork, duties, or an inspection is holding the goods, not that they are missing.

Start by confirming you entered the right reference. A booking ID, shipment ID, AWB, B/L, and container number can all relate to the same consignment, and entering the wrong one can return no result. If the status is genuinely stuck, the fastest route is to quote your reference to the DSV office that booked the shipment, since freight forwarding is handled by local DSV branches rather than one central call center. For e-commerce orders, contact the merchant you bought from first, because they hold the contract with DSV and can escalate on your behalf. The FAQ at the end of this page covers the exact steps for a stuck or not-updating shipment.

DSV Services and Delivery Times Compared

DSV operates across three divisions, DSV Air and Sea, DSV Road, and DSV Contract Logistics, plus the DSV XPress courier network that reaches more than 220 countries and territories (DSV XPress, 2024). Each service suits a different balance of speed, cost, and cargo size. The table below summarizes the main DSV services and their typical transit ranges, which are estimates and vary by lane, customs, and capacity.

DSV's Air and Sea division handles more than 4,500,000 TEUs of sea freight and 2,400,000 metric tons of air freight every year, while the Road division dispatches more than 50,000 trucks a day across its European, North American, and African networks (DSV, Company Structure, 2024).

DSV Air, Sea, and Road Transit Times by Region

DSV transit times depend on the transport mode and the trade lane, so the same destination can take a day by air or a month by sea. As a benchmark, air freight from Asia to Europe or North America commonly clears in 1-5 business days of flying time, while full-container ocean freight on the Asia to Europe lane typically runs about 30-40 days port to port before import handling. These are planning estimates, not guarantees, and DSV shows the actual estimated arrival inside myDSV once the shipment is booked.

Within Europe, DSV Road is one of the continent's leading land-freight operators, with groupage and full-load services that usually move goods between neighboring countries in 1-3 business days and across the continent in up to about a week. DSV's primary European fulfilment hub sits in the Netherlands near the Port of Rotterdam, which shortens lead times to and from northern Europe. For European parcel last-mile, DSV often hands the final leg to a domestic partner, so you may also see a separate DPD tracking number once a parcel enters local delivery. In Germany specifically, postal and parcel handoffs can route through operators such as Deutsche Post tracking for the last mile.

DSV Customs Clearance and International Handoff

DSV provides in-house customs clearance on its express and freight services, which is why "customs clearance in progress" is a normal step rather than a problem on international shipments. As a licensed forwarder, DSV prepares import and export declarations, calculates duties and taxes, and presents documentation to the relevant authority, for example U.S. Customs and Border Protection on inbound U.S. cargo. On DSV XPress and Smart XPress lanes, customs handling and real-time updates are built into the service so cross-border e-commerce parcels move without the recipient arranging clearance separately.

For door-to-door international freight, DSV typically controls the line-haul (the air, sea, or road leg) and then either delivers with its own road fleet or hands the final mile to a local carrier. When that handoff happens, your DSV status moves to "delivered to final-mile partner" or similar, and tracking may continue under the partner's own number. Keep both references until the goods arrive, because the DSV record confirms the international leg while the partner record confirms local delivery.

Which Countries Does DSV Deliver To?

DSV delivers to more than 90 countries through its own offices and to over 220 countries and territories via the DSV XPress courier network. After acquiring Schenker from Deutsche Bahn in 2025, DSV roughly doubled in size and now employs close to 150,000 people and operates around 400 warehouses with more than 6 million square metres of capacity (DSV, Contract Logistics, 2024). Its network spans every populated continent, with particularly dense coverage across Europe, the Americas, Asia-Pacific, and the Middle East.

DSV's reach is built on the UTi Worldwide (2016), Panalpina (2019), and Schenker (2025) acquisitions, which added air, sea, and road density on intercontinental trade lanes. The company is the legacy of DB Schenker tracking volumes too, since the former Schenker network is now part of DSV. Representative destinations by region include:

• Europe: Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Spain, Poland, Sweden, and the Baltic states.
• North America: the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
• Asia-Pacific: China, Japan, Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, and India.
• Middle East and Africa: the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and South Africa, where DSV runs significant road and contract-logistics operations.
• Latin America: Brazil, Chile, and regional hubs served through the air and sea network.

DSV Returns and Claims for Lost or Damaged Freight

DSV handles returns and reverse logistics as part of its contract-logistics and e-commerce fulfilment services, including returns handling, inventory management, and customer service for brand clients. If you bought from a webshop that fulfils through DSV, your return is arranged through the merchant's returns portal, and the goods flow back into the DSV warehouse that shipped them.

For lost or damaged freight, claims are filed with the DSV branch that handled the shipment, supported by the booking or shipment reference, commercial invoice, and proof of the loss or damage. Because freight forwarding liability is governed by international conventions (such as the Montreal Convention for air and the CMR convention for European road), keep all documentation and note any visible damage on the delivery receipt before signing. Quoting your DSV reference number speeds up tracing and any subsequent claim.

What Is DSV? Company Background and Network

DSV is a Danish transport and logistics company founded in 1976 by nine independent Danish hauliers, and its name is an initialism of "De Sammensluttede Vognmaend af 13-7 1976 A/S" (The Joint Hauliers of 13 July 1976) (DSV, History, 2024). From a small road-haulage cooperative, DSV grew through a long series of acquisitions into one of the world's largest freight forwarders, headquartered in Hedehusene near Copenhagen.

"DSV A/S is a Danish transport and logistics company offering global transport services by road, air, sea and train." (DSV, Wikipedia, 2025.)

The company's scale today rests on landmark deals: the DFDS Dan Transport Group (2000) and Frans Maas (2006) made it a pan-European road leader, UTi Worldwide (2016) and Panalpina (2019) gave it global air and sea density, and the 2025 purchase of Schenker from Deutsche Bahn was the largest transaction in its history. In 2024, before the Schenker integration, DSV reported revenue of DKK 167.1 billion (DSV, Wikipedia, 2025). DSV operates an asset-light model, meaning it owns relatively few planes or ships and instead buys capacity from carriers, which lets it scale quickly across modes.

"In 2025, DSV acquired Schenker from Deutsche Bahn in the largest transaction in the company's history, doubling its size." (DSV, History, 2025.)

DSV Marketplace and E-commerce Collaborations

DSV powers e-commerce and marketplace fulfilment for major retail brands through more than 25 e-commerce fulfilment centers worldwide, offering pick and pack, e-fulfilment, financial fulfilment, inventory management, returns, and customer service (DSV, E-commerce Solutions, 2024). Named brand clients include Estee Lauder, Deckers, Izipizi, and Non-stop Dogwear, spanning fashion, beauty, electronics, and sports categories.

For cross-border consumer parcels, DSV Smart XPress consolidates orders, clears customs, and delivers to the end recipient, which is how a marketplace order shipped through DSV reaches your door. When the final leg is subcontracted, you may see the parcel complete its journey under a marketplace or last-mile carrier such as Amazon Logistics tracking in markets where Amazon runs its own delivery. Because DSV sits upstream as the freight and fulfilment layer rather than a consumer-facing marketplace, your order confirmation from the retailer is usually the quickest place to find the DSV reference you need to track.

If you are tracking a marketplace purchase and only have a webshop order number, enter that customer reference in the tracker above; DSV's systems often resolve it to the underlying shipment so you can follow air, sea, road, or XPress movements without the internal booking ID.