News / Take the cost of going green out of your transport budget, says DHL chief

Tim Scharwath,

Extra costs for the transition to green shipping and logistics should be removed from transport budgets and “seen in a different way”, DHL Global Forwarding CEO Tim Scharwath told The Loadstar in Munich last week.

Mr Scharwath urged stakeholders along supply chains to factor-in these extra costs, but they must be broken down to become more palatable.

By reducing the cost of the environmental transition to unit level, such as an extra cost on the price of a pair of shoes, the ...