Trade war: “The tariffs are exhausting.”

DHL is the world's largest logistics company. CEO Tobias Meyer explains why Trump's trade war is even generating additional revenue for the DAX-listed company and why globalization simply continues.

From the conference room on the 40th floor of the Bonn Post Tower, DHL 's headquarters, the view extends over the Rhine, houses, and a vast forest. Tobias Meyer, CEO of the world's largest logistics group for two years, sits in front of a shelf with two models of DHL cargo planes. The 49-year-old has been a manager at the company with 602,000 employees since 2013; from 2019 to 2022, he was responsible for its subsidiary Deutsche Post . The industrial engineer with a doctorate and former McKinsey consultant wears a dark red tie for the interview: as always, it's his favorite color for his ties.