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EPISODE · Oct 15, 2025 · 9 MIN

DHL’s Rainer Haag on Tech, Trade, and the Future of European Supply Chains

from The Freight Buyers' Club · host Mike King

In this Freight Buyers’ Club interview, produced with the support of Ontegos Cloud, host Mike King speaks to Rainer Haag, CEO of DHL Supply Chain Europe, at the grand opening of DHL’s new European Innovation Center in Troisdorf, Germany. They discuss how DHL is turning innovation into action — applying AI, automation, and digitalisation to make supply chains more resilient, sustainable, and efficient — while navigating the trade and tariff shifts reshaping global freight. Rainer shares insights on: How DHL decides which technologies to pilot and scale The impact of robotics and automation on people and performance Why “digital by default” is central to DHL’s operations How European trade flows are adapting to disruption and nearshoring The next wave of technology transforming logistics ️ Hosted by Mike King, The Freight Buyers’ Club Supported by Ontegos Cloud — the freight forwarder profitability specialist Recorded at the DHL Innovation Center, Troisdorf, Germany #FreightBuyersClub #DHL #SupplyChain #Logistics #Trade #Freight #Automation #AIinLogistics #Warehousing #Innovation #LogisticsNews #OntegosCloud  

In this Freight Buyers’ Club interview, produced with the support of Ontegos Cloud, host Mike King speaks to Rainer Haag, CEO of DHL Supply Chain Europe, at the grand opening of DHL’s new European Innovation Center in Troisdorf, Germany. They discuss how DHL is turning innovation into action — applying AI, automation, and digitalisation to make supply chains more resilient, sustainable, and efficient — while navigating the trade and tariff shifts reshaping global freight. Rainer shares insights on: How DHL decides which technologies to pilot and scale The impact of robotics and automation on people and performance Why “digital by default” is central to DHL’s operations How European trade flows are adapting to disruption and nearshoring The next wave of technology transforming logistics ️ Hosted by Mike King, The Freight Buyers’ Club Supported by Ontegos Cloud — the freight forwarder profitability specialist Recorded at the DHL Innovation Center, Troisdorf, Germany #FreightBuyersClub #DHL #SupplyChain #Logistics #Trade #Freight #Automation #AIinLogistics #Warehousing #Innovation #LogisticsNews #OntegosCloud

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