2025’s logistics risks include tariffs, labor strife
Potential disruptions could pressure costs and reliability across transport modes. Here’s what supply chain experts are watching this year.
The new year will introduce a bevy of challenges for shippers’ logistics strategies.
President-elect Donald Trump’s push for higher tariffs, potential labor disruptions and pricing pressures are among the developments supply chain managers will have to navigate in 2025. No transport mode will be spared, with carriers in the ocean, air, rail, truck and parcel delivery spaces all grappling with their share of complexities.
Supply Chain Dive spoke with several experts about 2025’s logistics risks and how shippers can prepare. Here’s what we found.
ILA-USMX contract ratification, tariffs cloud ocean shipping
The ratification process for the tentative six-year union contract for East and Gulf Coast port workers will be top of mind for ocean shippers.
The deal, announced last week by the International Longshoremen’s Association and the United States Maritime Alliance, averts the risk of a potential Jan. 15 port strike. But it still needs to be approved by rank-and-file workers and port employers to take effect, and contract rejections have happened before in the supply chain world.
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