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Air Cargo Growth Faces Uncertainty Post2025 Surge

Global air cargo demand surged in 2024, but growth is expected to slow down in early 2025, influenced by geopolitical factors, trade policies, and e-commerce trends. IATA forecasts moderate growth for 2025, but market uncertainty is increasing. Companies need to closely monitor market dynamics, optimize services, and embrace technological innovation to maintain a competitive edge. This includes adapting to evolving consumer demands and supply chain disruptions to ensure long-term success in the air cargo market.

02/04/2026 Logistics Industry Insights

Ecommerce Logistics Embrace Digital Transformation for Supply Chain Gains

E-commerce logistics faces challenges like demand fluctuations, high time sensitivity, complex returns, and cost control pressures. Digital transformation offers a solution. Through intelligent warehouse management, optimized transportation management, big data analytics and forecasting, and supply chain collaboration platforms, companies can build intelligent logistics systems. This enables cost reduction and efficiency improvement, ultimately allowing them to stand out in the fierce market competition. This upgrade is crucial for adapting to the evolving e-commerce landscape and maintaining a competitive edge.

02/04/2026 Logistics Industry Insights

Experts Forecast Intermodal Transportation Trends for 2024

This article delves into freight expert Larry Gross's analysis of the multimodal transportation market, covering key dimensions such as volumes and services, port labor relations, traditional peak seasons, tariff policies, and pricing strategies. It emphasizes the need for businesses to pay close attention to market changes, flexibly respond to challenges, and seize opportunities to enhance competitiveness and achieve sustainable development. Understanding these dynamics is crucial for navigating the complexities of the modern freight landscape and ensuring long-term success.

02/04/2026 Logistics Industry Insights

STB Chair Urges Railroads to Focus on Service Not Profits

U.S. Surface Transportation Board Member Robert Primus, at the NEARS conference, emphasized the urgent need to improve rail service levels. He pointed to prioritizing operating ratio (PSR), problems with PSR implementation, labor shortages, and insufficient investment benefit assessments as key contributing factors. From a data analyst's perspective, this article proposes solutions including quantitative assessment, PSR optimization, addressing labor issues, and evaluating investment benefits. The aim is to reshape rail service and enhance its competitiveness by focusing on service quality and long-term sustainability rather than solely on short-term cost reduction.

02/04/2026 Logistics Industry Insights

Cpkcs Intermodal Strategy Transforms North American Supply Chains

This paper provides an in-depth analysis of the latest developments in CPKC rail intermodal, covering market status, strategic layout, labor relations impact, and future trends. It highlights CPKC's advantages in cross-border transportation, cost-effectiveness, and environmental friendliness. The paper also offers recommendations on how companies can leverage CPKC to enhance supply chain resilience, helping them stand out in global competition. By understanding CPKC's role and potential, businesses can optimize their logistics strategies and improve their overall competitiveness in the evolving global market.

02/04/2026 Logistics Industry Insights

New Tariffs Reshape Crossborder Ecommerce Product Strategies

Faced with new tariff policies, the traditional product selection logic for cross-border e-commerce is challenged. This article explores how product selection assistants can reconstruct data dimensions, including accurate tax rate mapping, logistics plan simulation, and inventory turnover assessment, to adapt to the new environment. The product selection assistant needs to upgrade from a "data display" to a "decision simulator," providing full-chain data support to help merchants achieve refined operations amidst uncertainty. It emphasizes the importance of comprehensive data analysis for informed decision-making in a dynamic market.