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Developing shared logistics capabilities can reduce operating costs by boosting utilization rates of warehouses and vehicles. The sharing economy has already transformed several industries through the popularity of apps such as Uber and Airbnb. The sharing economy will also bring benefits to logistics as it allows all participants to share fixed costs, enabling companies to […]

The circular economy is disrupting the logistics industry as we know it, yet there is great potential for logistics firms to develop plays in return services, enabling items to be reused or recycled. A circular economy (see Figure 1) is an alternative to a traditional linear economy in which resources are made, used and then […]

Market trends are driving growth in logistics while technological advances are opening up new ways for the industry to meet that increased demand. An orphaned polar bear cub. Half a million bottles of vintage French wine. Organs for life-saving transplant operations. The logistics industry transports almost anything you can imagine to almost anywhere on earth.¹ The […]

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This article is part of the World Economic Forum’s Geostrategy platform Trade chokepoints – maritime, coastal and inland – pose an underexplored and growing risk to global food security, argues the report Chokepoints and Vulnerabilities in Global Food Trade. Maritime chokepoints will become increasingly integral to meeting global food supply as population growth, shifting dietary preferences, bioenergy […]

Cuando un proyecto de infraestructura se ejecuta por medio de una Asociación Público Privada (APP), los riesgos de construcción, operación y mantenimiento de dicha infraestructura no son de responsabilidad exclusiva del sector público, pero tampoco pueden transferirse en su totalidad a los privados. La adecuada asignación de los riesgos, tomando en cuenta la parte que mejor puede manejar cada […]

“Logistics performance – both in international trade and domestically – is central to the economic growth and competitiveness of countries, and the logistics sector is now recognized as one of the core pillars of economic development.” So reads a 2016 report by the World Bank titled Connecting to Compete 2016: Trade Logistics in the Global Economy. […]