Ep 140: 2018 in review (part 2)

Dec 24, 2018

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)