In June 2015 it acquired a 50% shareholding in Austrian rail freight operator LTE Logistik. In December 2014 Rhenus purchased a 50.1% shareholding in Swiss rail freight operator Crossrail AG. In 2012 Rhenus founded Contargo for inland container logistics. In 2004 Polish logistics provider Polta was purchased. In 2003, Rhenus set up a joint venture with Kerry Logistics in Asia. A new logistics centre was built near Paris and an external supplier warehouse for Daimler-Benz opened in Stuttgart. In 2002, Rhenus Alpina took over Cargologic and began handling air freight at Bern, Geneva and Zurich Airports. In the same year, Rhenus started operating the Ikea central warehouse in Salzgitter and launched the International Consolidation Centre in Giessen. In 2000 Rhenus acquired Schweizerische Reederei und Neptun and rebranded it Rhenus Alpina. Other logistics centres were opened in the following years in Langgöns, Giessen, Mannheim, Stuttgart, Hanover and Prague. In 1993, a 60,000 m² logistics centre opened in Berlin. In 1996 the three divisions were merged under the umbrella of Schenker-Rhenus AG company. Rhenus Transport International became part of the newly formed Schenker International Rhenus Lager und Umschlag then operated under the former name of Rhenus, and Rhenus-Weichelt was merged with Schenker Eurocargo. In 1991 Stinnes purchased Schenker AG outright and the three Rhenus divisions were restructured again. In 1990 Stinnes AG (1979 change of name from Hugo Stinnes AG) entered into a strategic alliance with Schenker AG, acquiring a 25% stake in this subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn. In 1988 Rhenus was restructured into three companies: Rhenus Weichelt handled road freight transport, Rhenus Lager und Umschlag took on warehousing, transhipment and inland waterway shipping and Rhenus Transport International was responsible for international freight forwarding and air freight. In 1984 Rhenus-WTAG merged with Westfaelische Transport-AG and resumed under the name Rhenus. The CCS Combined Container Service was founded at the same time. At this stage, Rhenus-WTAG had 40 branch offices throughout Germany. In 1976 Rhenus merged with Fendel-Stinnes-Schiffahrt and WTAG to form Rhenus-WTAG with company headquarters moving to Dortmund. The Fendel-Stinnes-Schiffahrt company was set up near Duisburg. In 1971 Hugo Stinnes AG restructured its inland waterway shipping activities. Hugo Stinnes AG taking over the transport activities of VEBA. In 1934 Hibernia Bergwerksgesellschaft, a subsidiary of VEBA, acquired a majority shareholding in the company. In 1929 Rhenus merged with Badische Actiengesellschaft, Rheinschiffahrts Actiengesellschaft and other shipping companies. Branch offices were established in Antwerp, Mainz, Mannheim and Rotterdam. It was named Rhenus adopting the Latin word for the Rhine. On 13 November 1912 Badische Actiengesellschaft für Rheinschiffahrt und Seetransport and Rheinschiffahrts Actiengesellschaft established a joint company with headquarters in Frankfurt.
Rhenus Logistics distribution centre in Son en Breugel, Netherlands
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