The 2025 State of the Shipping Industry Report by WWEX Group outlines 12 key trends shaping freight and logistics in 2025 amid ongoing challenges like rising costs, workforce shortages, and geopolitical uncertainties. The report highlights a freight market recovery with tightening capacity and rising spot rates, emphasizing the need for shippers to manage cost volatility and secure better pricing. Key trends include new LTL freight classification changes improving pricing accuracy, final-mile delivery innovations such as drones, autonomous vehicles, dynamic routing, and electric vehicles, as well as the rise of smart ports and Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) technology.

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