Kathryn McFarland, Global Logistics Industry

Xerfi Global has recently published a study on the Global Logistics Industry, which has become a tale of two speeds. On the one hand, general cross-border transport is seeing headwinds. Global trade is currently in the doldrums, reflecting a cocktail of factors including the shortening of global value chains, slowing trade liberalisation and rising protectionism as well as reduced imports and exports of the world’s trade epicentre, China. [...]