Forwarding market to contract in 2025, following a pivotal growth phase in 2024.
Global Freight Forwarding 2025 presents data-driven analysis & strategic insights. It examines the key forces shaping the market, including trade flow shifts, digitilisation, and evolving customer expectations. The report also contains trusted logistics market size, growth rates and forecast data.
Use the report to benchmark performance, plan with precision, and stay ahead.
Key Highlights:
- Regional growth is uneven.
- Small, regional forwarders are carving out space by offering niche expertise, speed, and close customer relationships.
- Sustainability is emerging as a key differentiator among competitors.
- e-commerce powerful growth driver
- Market to contract by 1.1% in 2025.
- The market is expected to grow at a 1.8% CAGR to 2029.
- Air & sea freight contract in 2025.
- Operational excellence, digital agility, and strategic adaptability are key to success.
Use the Report for:
- Market planning: identify key growth areas and support investment strategy.
- Competitive analysis: benchmark performance, identify opportunities.
- M&A targeting: assess key targets.
- Tech & innovation: track digital trends and guide product development.
- Operations: plan capacity ad optimise regional resources.
- Marketing: support messaging & build thought leadership.
- Tariff impact: model trade shifts and mitigate supply chain risks.
This report contains:
- Market size & forecasts (2024, 2025 - 2029): global, regional & air & sea.
- Tariff impact assessment on forwarding and trade flows.
- Trade management tools: strategic use and optimisation.
- Competitive landscape analysis: global forwarder comparison, Top 20 rankings.
- M&A activity impact analysis
- Leading freight forwarder profiles: including capabilities, strategies & market positioning.
This report is perfect for:
- Supply chain managers and directors
- Logistics procurement managers
- Global manufacturers
- Banks and financial institutions
- Marketing managers
- Knowledge managers
- Investors
- All C-level executives
Table of Contents
1. Global freight forwarding market size & forecasting 2024-2029
2. Restructuring of Global Trade: Effects on the Freight Forwarding Market
3. Navigating Tariff Turbulence: How Global Shippers Can Leverage Trade Management Tools Amid the US-China-EU Trade Crisis
4. Competitive Landscape - Comparison of Global Freight Forwarders
5. Global Freight Forwarding Providers
Companies Mentioned (Partial List)
A selection of companies mentioned in this report includes, but is not limited to:
- Ceva Logistics
- DHL Group
- DSV A/S
- Expeditors International of Washington Inc.
- Geodis
- Kerry Logistics
- Kintetsu World Express
- Kuehne+Nagel
- Nippon Express
- Sinotrans
