Transportation and Logistics

Critical raw materials (CRMs) are raw materials that are economically and strategically important for a country or region but have high risks associated with their supply. Criticality depends on various factors, and what counts as critical from a particular standpoint might not be the same from another standpoint. For instance, what might be critic...

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption of autonomous vehicles in last-mile delivery, driven by the need for contactless deliveries and shorter delivery times in the booming eCommerce industry. Autonomous vehicles offer numerous benefits, including addressing labor shortages, reducing delivery delays, meeting demand requirements during p...

This Frost & Sullivan study focuses on the growth opportunities for edge computing solutions in supply chain and logistics. Edge computing is a distributed computing architecture that makes data computation happen closer to the data source. Edge computing aids supply chain efficiency as it frees up resources, lessens reliance on human management, s...

In the post-pandemic global business ecosystem, all eyes remain trained on supply chains as operations inch toward a new normal characterized by transparency and business resilience. In this study, Frost & Sullivan discusses the top growth opportunities for the fast-evolving supply chain and logistics domain, particularly how technologies, inclu...

This study focuses on track and trace solutions used in the container shipping industry, specifically dry and reefer containers. Track and trace solutions are used to track (identify location and history) shipments throughout the entire supply chain, from supplier to consumer, using radio frequency identification (RFID), GPS tracking, and/or barcod...

Supply chain management across industries around the world has undergone a substantial overhaul. Globalization, the rapid growth in emerging economies, and the changing dynamics of business processes are driving the highly varying levels of demand from different regions across the globe. Multiple market factors are influencing supply chain systems,...

Sweden is among the best-performing Nordic economies, supported by a strong labor market, high private and public consumption, and industrial production. The Swedish economy is highly interlinked with the EU economy. The share of exports is above 40% of the GDP. R&D export is the major growth driver. In the medium term, Swedish exports are expected...

The Canadian economy is expected to experience steady growth, mainly due to improvements in consumer spending and the business environment. A trend of re-allocation of investment and employment from resource to non-resource is being observed as the economy continues to adjust to low commodity prices. Canada’s labor market is characterized by fle...

With the weakening of the Euro and the robust demand from outside the Euro area, especially the United States and China (which increased exports), Germany's economy has grown. The rising oil prices are expected to narrow the current account surplus. However, export growth may weaken as the impact of the earlier Euro depreciation wanes and as risin...