Häger & Schmidt Logistics joined the partner network of the startport innovation platform and will support startups in the future as an industry expert.
Team meeting and onboarding in the StartPort office.
Häger & Schmidt Logistics joined the partner network of the startport innovation platform and will support startups in the future as an industry expert. We talk to Heiko Brückner, CEO of Häger & Schmidt Logistics, about the challenges of digitization, the relevance of logistics startups and how they plan to enrich the StartPort network in the future.
Startport: What exactly is Häger & Schmidt Logistics doing?
Heiko Brückner: The Häger & Schmidt Logistics Group is a logistics provider that has been operating since 1887 with many networks in Europe with the core competencies of Intermodal, Inland Navigation, Project Logistics, Port Logistics, Short Sea, and Shipping and Forwarding.
startport: What challenges do you encounter most often when it comes to digitization?
Heiko Brückner: Digitalization is a strategic direction for us. We must digitally design processes within a process from start to finish. In doing so, we are improving our performance, particularly with regard to cooperation with our customers and competitors.
startport: Why does Häger & Schmidt Logistics support startport?
Heiko Brückner: Since Häger & Schmidt Logistics is very familiar with the needs and requirements of the industry, we would like to actively support young entrepreneurs so that they can realize their ideas and dreams. We see a win-win solution here.
startport: What interests you about logistics startups?
Heiko Brückner: The contact and connection with young creative minds gives us new impulses to grow and develop in a competitive manner. We expect new pioneering concepts and logistics solutions from the connection to logistics startups.
startport: What questions can StartPort startups ask Häger & Schmidt Logistics in the future?
Heiko Brückner: Häger & Schmidt has 100 years of experience and development on the market. From the fields of freight forwarding, shipping, container logistics with stuffing to trucking, our highly qualified employees are always at your disposal.
We have the know-how in logistics and can support young companies here.
startport: Network is so important because...
Heiko Brückner: ... a network connects, inspires, creates new ideas and collaborations. In a network, the potential for innovations in the logistics sector is enormous. Everyone benefits from this.
About startport: As a subsidiary of Duisburger Hafen AG (duisport), startport GmbH is committed to initiating a creative culture of innovation and actively promoting further development in the area of logistics and supply chain. With this claim, it promotes and challenges young startups that, together with duisport and the companies based here, are developing pioneering ideas for the leading logistics hub in the heart of Europe.
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