Are the boom times over for the logistics industry?

摘要

A recent survey by Professor Peter Klaus and Christian Kille of the Fraunhofer Center for Applied Research on Technologies for the Logistics Service Industries (Germany) concluded that Europe's logistics industry will suffer from the effects of the current recession. But certain specialties such as contract logistics can expect growth to continue.rnThe latest survey of the top 100 logistics companies published by the Nuremberg (Germany)-based Fraunhofer Center for Applied Research on Technologies for the Logistics Service Industries (ATL), which was presented at the recent 25th congress of the German Logistics Association in Berlin (Germany), initially paints a euphoric picture.