Prior to this, the inland shipping activities of all Stinnes subsidiaries had been pooled in RS PartnerShip and integrated into the Rhenus Group together with Midgard Deutsche Seeverkehrs-AG.

[14] In the same year, Rhenus started operating the IKEA central warehouse in Salzgitter and launched the International Consolidation Centre in Giessen.

In 2002, Rhenus Alpina took over Cargologic and began handling air freight at Bern, Geneva and Zurich Airports.

[1] Through the acquisition of Interspe Hamann Group (IHG) in 2006, Rhenus gained access to the company's land transport network and global freight services.

The takeover of TMI also led to an expansion of the Rhenus Group's international air and sea freight business.

[19][20] In the same year, Thüringer Verlagsauslieferung (TVA) in Gotha was transferred from the Langenscheidt Publishing Group to Rhenus Medien Logistik.

[19][22][23] Rhenus and Mierka Donauhafen Krems agreed a strategic partnership to expand the Danube activities, which led to the acquisition of a majority shareholding in 2013.

[25] In 2011, Rhenus signed an agreement to take over the European activities of the Wincanton Group and strengthened its position in contract logistics and multimodal transport with the purchase.

[2] In December of the same year, Rhenus purchased a 50.1 percent shareholding in Swiss rail freight operator Crossrail AG.

[1][38] The logistics service provider also acquired the Dutch forwarding company Jos Dusseldorp Vastgoed B.V., which had more than 90 employees and was added to its home delivery business segment.

[48] Rhenus acquired all shares in the Bavarian scanning service provider MDN Hübner on 1 January 2021, and took over the logistics group Loxx.

[52][53] In June 2023, Rhenus acquired Polish Destroy & Recycling,[54] Colombian BLU Logistics, as well as a majority shareholding in the LBH Group in September 2023.

The company also has its own warehouse management system and offers real-time monitoring of ongoing processes via an app for its customers.

[1][63] In Tilburg, Netherlands, Rhenus operates a warehouse with 13,000 solar panels on the roof, which enables a CO2-neutral energy supply for the company and electricity production for 750 households.

[65] In Wesel, the company built a logistics center in 2023 with a total area of 86,000 square meters that does not use fossil fuels.