What are the reasons why digital platforms are used in intermodal freight transport – and why not? Paul Bossong, Anne Reinhardt and Prof. Ralf Elbert explored the reasons why by interviewing 21 firms in the intermodal freight transport industry such as platform providers, intermodal operators, freight forwarders, terminal operators and market experts

How do intermodal terminals tackle infrastructure challenges such as capacity constraints and coordination hiccups? Our students set out to find answers—and they did!

The German logistics sector is currently facing a real tour de force: A shortage of skilled workers, rising costs, rail networks in need of renovation and bumps on the digital data highway are just some of the tasks that need to be mastered. In the face of such challenges, creative and flexible thinking counts more than ever before.

The question “What is logistics?” cannot just be answered with “transportation and warehousing” – it encompasses much more. Logistics is the backbone of modern economic systems and ensures that goods, information and services are managed and moved efficiently.

We live in a highly connected world and modern logistics is no longer conceivable without value creation networks. Open and flexible value chains characterize our economic system in a dynamic international environment.

The logistics industry is constantly evolving – driven in particular by digitalization, automation and data-based decision-making. Artificial intelligence (AI) is playing an increasingly important role in this, even if the real key to progress lies not in AI itself, but in the underlying data, because no AI can work meaningfully without high-quality, structured and contextualized data.