UWE BRINKS, CEO, DHL Freight

Uwe Brinks has been CEO of DHL Freight since 2017, a position he assumed after a lifetime of service.

Uwe Brinks has been CEO of DHL Freight since January 2017, managing the company’s operations and strategic development.

As one of the leading providers of road freight services in Europe, the division of Deutsche Post DHL Group provides its customers with an array of flexible, reliable and efficient road, rail and intermodal freight solutions.

Since 2019 Brinks has been a member of the Presiding Board of the ‘Deutsches Verkehrsforum’ (DVF), Europe’s only multimodal industry association for passenger and cargo transport in Europe.

Brinks has spent most of his career in DHL’s mail and German parcel businesses, where he has held various managerial positions, most recently as chief production officer in the Post e-commerce and Parcel division. Today, Brinks is at the forefront of the company’s bid to meet its net zero goals.

He says DHL’s sustainability roadmap provides “a clear route to reducing our greenhouse gas emissions in line with the Science-Based Targets initiative”.

He adds: “We plan to achieve this by investing €7bn in green technologies until 2030. We will grow the share of sustainable fuels to more than 30% and ensure that 60% of our last-mile delivery fleet are e-vehicles.”

At DHL Freight, Brinks and his team are developing the truck technology roadmap to chart their way forward, and are “spotlighting our journey toward clean transport through viable short-, mid- and long-term solutions”.

This includes a shift from road to rail, the use of so-called ‘bridge technologies’, such as bio-LNG, and longer-term technologies, such as hydrogen and battery electric trucks.

All told, DHL Freight aims to reduce CO2 emissions by 1.2mn tons

UWE BRINKS

TITLE: CEO

COMPANY: DHL FREIGHT