By Maria Kalamatas | May 16, 2025 São Paulo —It’s not the trucks that are late. It’s the cold. As demand for temperature-controlled goods explodes in 2025—ranging from vaccines and chemicals to avocados and frozen seafood—global cold chain logistics is reaching a critical bottleneck. Not in speed. In storage, handling, and reefer...
By Maria Kalamatas | May 16, 2025 Abidjan —The cranes at Abidjan still move, the ships still dock at Tema. But much of West Africa’s most strategic trade activity now happens far from the coast. From Burkina Faso to northern Ghana, a growing network of inland freight terminals—dry ports—has begun to reshape...
By Maria Kalamatas | May 16, 2025 Istanbul —There’s no flash. No headlines. No slogans. But behind the scenes of some of the most sensitive cargo routes in the Middle East, Violet Logistics, a Turkish operator based in Istanbul, is building something that many larger firms have lost: real trust. Founded in 2022...
By Maria Kalamatas | May 16, 2025 Dubai —They don’t have hundreds of offices. They don’t dominate the headlines. But they’re growing—quietly, steadily, and with purpose. Across the logistics world, smaller independent freight networks are outperforming expectations in 2025. While global giants scale with algorithms and automation, these niche alliances are scaling...
By Maria Kalamatas | May 16, 2025 Frankfurt —There’s no spotlight. No noise. But in logistics, something fundamental is changing—and it’s all about trust. For years, blockchain was treated like a buzzword: abstract, expensive, overhyped. In 2025, it’s becoming invisible infrastructure. Not for show. For certainty. “You don’t notice it when it works,”...
By Maria Kalamatas | May 16, 2025 Copenhagen —It doesn’t feel radical. It doesn’t make headlines. But it’s happening—in warehouses, in loading bays, in packaging lines. In 2025, the shift toward circular logistics isn’t a promise anymore. It’s a practice. And it’s changing the way goods move, return, and restart. “We design for...
By Maria Kalamatas | May 15, 2025 Los Angeles —The cranes are moving. The lights are on. But the containers aren’t going anywhere. At first glance, everything looks fine at the ports of Southern California. Ships dock. Trucks arrive. Schedules hold—mostly. But if you talk to people behind the scenes, you’ll hear a...
By Maria Kalamatas | May 15, 2025 Frankfurt —The dashboard looks great—until something stops reporting. A sensor falls offline. A container isn’t pinging. A delivery van crosses a geofence but doesn’t show up on the map. And suddenly, no one knows where the shipment is, or if it even moved. Across global logistics...
By Maria Kalamatas | May 15, 2025 Frankfurt —Every box that goes out now has to be able to come back. Across Europe, logistics managers are no longer debating whether to adopt circular models. They’re figuring out how to make them work—daily, practically, and at scale. “We used to focus on what left...
