Ep 140: 2018 in review (part 2)

Dean Maciuba and Marek Różycki from Last Mile Experts join me to review some of the major trends in 2018. We cover: Out-of-home delivery - including parcel lockers (2:05) What is driving out-of-home delivery options (3:15) PUDO networks (4:00) How home ownership and lifestyle choices influence residential delivery (4:55) What the two major US parcel carriers are doing in parcel lockers and PUDO points (5:48) Price incentive to recipients to accept out-of-home delivery (8:35) Deutsche Post DHL's delivery and PUDO network in Germany (10:33) Estonian out-of-home delivery market (11:55) Is the "gig economy" delivery model doomed? (13:00) VC-backed delivery start-ups (14:57) Cathy Morrow Roberson, founder and lead analyst at Logistics Trends & Insights, discusses the big trends in air freight in 2018, including: Strength of global air freight in 2018 (19:55) Cross-border partnerships, including China Post and Lufthansa (21:00) Trends in pricing, including fuel surcharges (21:32) FedEx and UPS's air fleets (22:05) How retail is driving demand for air freight (23:05) Tariffs on Chinese imports and what that means for cross-border logistics (24:45)