(2013.12 Task 3) Deutsche Bahn AG Deutsche Bahn (DB) AG was found in 1994. Today, it is one of the world’s leading passenger and logistics ( 物流 ) companies and operates in 130 countries. Every day about 290 000 employees provide passenger transportation and logistics services for customers around the world, as well as controlling and operating the relater transport networks in the rail, land, ocean, and air transport. In the 2010 financial year, DB AG posted revenues (总收入) of about 34.4 billion euros ( 欧元 ). The company’s railway activities in Germany——with about seven million passengers and 1 138 000 tons of goods transported every day——are its core business. Moreover, every day DB transports more then two million customers by bus. And every day DB AG operates over 26 000 train trips on its modern 33 000 kilometer long track network. DB’s main strategy, in addition to increasing its international activities, is to link together all modes of transport and building new travel and logistics chains worldwide.