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Learn about DHL's innovative research and products. Here is where imagination becomes reality. Imagine a world where RFID and satellite surveillance enable packages to find their own way to recipients and where couriers drive emission-free hydrogen cars.

Create the Future of Logistics

What does it take to come up with new ideas? It takes vision, strategy and dedicated people. With the new unit DHL Solutions & Innovations the company's innovative activities find their focal point. The mission of DHL Solutions & Innovations is to develop marketable, highly innovative logistics solutions that are both flexible and ecologically sound to meet the challenges of the future. These solutions are based upon a cooperative exchange of knowledge, technologies, services and resources with the customers and within the partner network.

Insight into the Logistics of Tomorrow

Illustration DHL Innovation Center

Where can you see the future? DHL Innovation Center - an integral part of DSI - is located close to the airport Cologne/Bonn, Germany, has been open to visitors from DHL, its customers and partners.

The DHL Innovation Center with its four areas - showroom, laboratory, Hands-on-Lab and the conference area - is a place for research, meetings and a place to present innovation in logistics. Using state-of-the-art RFID technology and prototypes, the showroom turns the latest logistics innovations and visions into an emotional experience for visitors. The Center's hands-on-lab offers an interactive demonstration playground for prototypes; the laboratory provides a common research and development platform for the Group's initiatives in the area of technical innovation management. In the conference area, we look for future-oriented logistics solutions with customers, partner companies and internal business units.

Curious about the future?

Visit the DHL Solutions & Innovations homepage

Rapidly growing trade volumes, the latest technology and groundbreaking innovations - discover a fascinating industry that is booming worldwide.

The Logistics Phenomenon

Illustration The logistics phenomenon

Companies face enormous challenges in the 21st century. They must contain or reduce costs, respond flexibly to fast-changing consumer demand and be mindful of their impact on the environment. Modern logistics offers companies the solutions they need to address these challenges, and that's why the logistics industry is booming.

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