Air Freight

Carbon Neutral Cargo Flights
News

Carbon neutral cargo flights

Lufthansa Cargo and DB Schenker announced Nokia as their next big customer on their CO2-free freighter flights between Frankfurt, Germany and Shanghai, China. The extension of the connection will take place…

Open Source
Features,  News,  Trends

Open Source for logistics

For the first time, various logistics service providers have teamed up to drive digitalization together, and through open source, they will make this accessible to all.

Ai for air freight
Features,  Trends

AI for air freight

In times of disrupted supply chains, Artificial Intelligence is a promising innovation to improve planning, forecasting, and predictions for logistics service providers, especially in volatile markets like air…

Features,  News,  Trends

First public VoloDrone flight

Hamburg, Germany, the electric heavy-lift cargo drone VoloDrone took off for the first public test flight, in its history, at the ITS World Congress. In partnership with Volocopter, the logistic service…

Patric Hoffmann
Opinions

Interview with Patric Hoffmann

Interview with Patric Hoffmann, Head of Schenker Ventures, about venture capital, its benefits and challenges and an outlook.

Logistics in Dubai
Features,  Trends

Logistics in Dubai

Serving the region, the Indian sub-continent, and providing the halfway stage for goods bound for Europe from China and East Asia – Dubai appears to have great potential after all. Could this mean that Dubai…

Venture Capital in Logistics and Supply Chain Management
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Venture Capital in Logistics and Supply Chain Management

Corporate venturing has become vastly common in other industries. Within the logistics industry, the approach is not yet so widely spread. However, the global logistics service provider, DB Schenker, is quite…

Post-Corona
Opinions

Post-Corona

Pandemic, Brexit, and digitization: Relationships between logistics service providers and its customers changed severely due to last months‘ crises. Markus Pütz, CCO at DB Schenker in the cluster DE/CH…

Static PoC with VoloDrone and DB Schenker
News

The supply chain of the future

DB Schenker and Volocopter have successfully conducted a joint static proof of concept for VoloDrone ground operations in logistic centers at Messe Stuttgart, Germany. This two-day collaboration resulted in…

Artificial Intelligence in Logistics
Features,  Trends

The use of Artificial Intelligence in logistics

Digitalization and AI are currently transforming almost every industry – logistics is one of them. the question of how AI can be used to increase speed, efficiency, and accuracy across the supply chain is…