Updated on July 1, 2025
This State of the Industry report aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of the transportation logistics industry, shedding light on its key drivers, trends, and emerging technologies. By examining the current landscape and forecasting future developments, we seek to equip decision-makers, industry professionals, and stakeholders with valuable insights to navigate the ever-evolving logistics landscape.
With the world becoming increasingly interconnected, the transportation logistics industry faces both immense opportunities and unprecedented challenges. Globalization, e-commerce, and advancements in technology have sparked a seismic shift in consumer expectations, supply chain strategies, and sustainability concerns.
Highlights for the general freight report include:
- Driven by geopolitical risk and cooling U.S.-China trade tensions, ocean spot rates and bookings have spiked in recent weeks.
- Outside of a holiday-induced bump, truckload demand has remained stagnant over the past few months and is unlikely to see significant growth until peak season.
- The Q3 outlook for intermodal demand is far sunnier, thanks to the coming wave of maritime imports.
- Macroeconomic data is wavering and has fallen to meet depressed sentiment among consumers, manufacturers and homebuilders.
- The Federal Open Market Committee was not persuaded by this concerning weakness at its June meeting, however. Citing a stable (though arguably precarious) job market, it once again withheld cuts to the federal funds rate.
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