Seven Key Future Developments in Sustainable Logistics

Abstract

The logistics business faces lots of scrupulous challenges when it comes to its sustainability. Since many years now, facilitators of logistics services have been closely integrated into their customer’s manufacturing processes and activities. Government and businesses also carefully weigh logistics in their long-term investment decisions and assessments. The logistics industry itself is not merely responsible for ensuring that the right product reaches the right place at the right time - which is the operating law of logistics industry. It is also responsible for its own environmental impact related to their operations. The industry must transform itself into one that is increasingly carbon efficient i.e. non-polluting identity.Several questions are still bothering the world - what forces will drive this transformation and how soon will it happen? Several leading logistics companies like FedEx, DHL etc has staked out a clear position - one that is outlined in my study “Approaching Sustainable Logistics system.” This review paper contains the conclusions drafted in it - world’s key expectations for the future logistics. Let me try to explain how some of the future trends and developments which are expected to measure up the world’s logistics sustainability in upcoming decade.