Industry Insights

The loadspace shortage has long been one of the biggest challenges of the logistics industry: Germany alone is nearly 40,000 truck drivers short every year, with an upward tendency. This is the time for carriers and forwarders from industry and trade to take action in order to solve the problem before it is too late.

It's the largest construction project ever. The New Silk Road will change enormous sec-tors of the transport and logistics industry and it will have an impact on the economy, even on political power structures.

Currently, more than 75 percent of all citizens in the European Union live in cities (source: statista), and the trend is increasing. This trend will further strengthen the pres-sure on urban logistics, which has already increased significantly due to the boom in e-commerce and increasing demands on air quality.

Challenges and trends in rail freight transport, air freight, shipping and road freight transport.

Logistics industry prepares for all eventualities. Survey gives cause for optimism.

The digitalization of supply chains and internal processes, artificial intelligence (AI) as well as autonomous driving and planning material requirements are among the trend topics that the logistics industry must face.

Logistics experts consider protectionism and punitive tariffs as a clear threat to interna-tional trade. This is the result of a recent survey by BVL and transport logistic.

Logistics concepts of the future: Find out which developments will significantly influence the logistics of the future »More about the trends in logistics.

Supply chain quality and reliability are increasingly more important than their price.

Women are rare in logistics. What are the reasons? How can the logistics industry benefit from women?