Unprecedented challenges in the transportation and logistics industry demand radical reinvention. BCG empowers clients across all sectors to undertake bold moves in embracing digital innovation, restructuring, and serving customers.
Defending against such industrywide transformation can seem impossible. By contrast, embracing transformation—and outpacing it with a companywide transformation of your own—opens up possibilities.
Transportation and logistics companies face existential threats from across the competitive landscape. Digital newcomers are redefining how to manage logistics operations and service customers. Longtime collaborators are expanding into adjacent spaces up and down the value chain. Even some customers, such as e-tailers, are morphing into competitors.
BCG’s transportation and logistics consulting team achieves transformations across the post and parcel, rail, shipping, and logistics industries. Our approach positions companies for success in the face of current challenges. It also prepares them to ride impending waves of change, such as shifting trends in global trade, the uncertainty and volatility of the postpandemic reality, and consumer and regulatory demands for improvements in sustainability.
We collaborate with our all transportation and logistics clients, so they can:
We also bring highly specialized expertise to bear in each of the essential transportation and logistics industries.
Rail Industry
BCG’s transportation consulting team partners with urban transportation, rail freight, rail maintenance, and rail technology companies. We help our rail clients boost efficiency while simultaneously taking on the limits of existing rail infrastructure and the changing patterns of demand and mobility.
Shipping Industry
With BCG’s guidance, our shipping clients optimize their fleet and routing strategies to outmaneuver overcapacity and demand volatility. We help develop creative end-to-end approaches and new business models for bulk and container shippers, as well as terminal operators.
Postal and Parcel Industry
BCG’s tailored strategic advice enables postal and parcel companies to create value from well-recognized brands and local customer bases. We help players build on their customers’ familiarity and trust to maintain attractive profit pools. And we position them to claim and optimize last-mile advantages.
Logistics and Freight Industry
Logistics consulting teams at BCG partner with companies specializing in sea forwarding, contract logistics, road and air freight, and cargo. We aid these companies in homing in on their most profitable regions and markets. And we help deploy digital and analytics capabilities to tap value once achievable only through asset-intensive approaches.
This digital marketplace, originally built by BCG, matches the supply of and demand for containers across competing transportation providers. This tool helps clients reduce their costs and carbon intensity and increase their supply chain efficiency.
This initiative provides an easy way for shipping companies to compare their costs and performance with competitors across the industry. It uses data from more than 3,000 of the world’s commercial vessels to help companies improve their competitiveness, learn best practices, keep up with the latest industry trends, and educate stakeholders about the value they provide.
The tool provides decision makers in transportation and logistics with a powerful cockpit for steering operational choices. The tool compiles data on 7 industries, 25 market segments and subsegments, and 31 financial KPIs. Get a complete picture of the industry and forecast trends and assess your company’s relative performance.
The tool enables companies to analyze global trends for 9 major trade lanes, 64 shipping routes, and 11 regions. Use the tool’s comprehensive data and rigorous analysis to model future scenarios and explore the potential impact on the global container market.
These technologies promise to slash expenses, improve reliability, and increase the utilization of capital-intensive rolling stock.
To stay ahead of e-commerce giants, carriers must win the hearts of online shoppers with more efficient deliveries that are tailored to individual customers.
