2018 in Review (Part 2)
Dean Maciuba and Marek Różycki from Last Mile Experts join me to review some of the major trends in 2018. We cover:
- Out-of-home delivery – including parcel lockers (2:05)
- What is driving out-of-home delivery options (3:15)
- PUDO networks (4:00)
- How home ownership and lifestyle choices influence residential delivery (4:55)
- What the two major US parcel carriers are doing in parcel lockers and PUDO points (5:48)
- Price incentive to recipients to accept out-of-home delivery (8:35)
- Deutsche Post DHL’s delivery and PUDO network in Germany (10:33)
- Estonian out-of-home delivery market (11:55)
- Is the “gig economy” delivery model doomed? (13:00)
- VC-backed delivery start-ups (14:57)
Cathy Morrow Roberson, founder and lead analyst at Logistics Trends & Insights, discusses the big trends in air freight in 2018, including:
- Strength of global air freight in 2018 (19:55)
- Cross-border partnerships, including China Post and Lufthansa (21:00)
- Trends in pricing, including fuel surcharges (21:32)
- FedEx and UPS’s air fleets (22:05)
- How retail is driving demand for air freight (23:05)
- Tariffs on Chinese imports and what that means for cross-border logistics (24:45)
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