Fundamental changes in the transportation and logistics industry demand that companies radically reinvent themselves to succeed. BCG’s logistics consulting and transportation consulting teams help clients embrace digital innovation, restructure, and better serve their customers.
Defending against this industrywide transformation can seem impossible. By contrast, embracing transformation—and outpacing it with a companywide transformation of your own—opens up possibilities for transportation and logistics companies.
Rail Industry
Our 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 our guidance, shipping clients optimize their fleet and routing strategies to outmaneuver overcapacity and demand volatility. Our logistics consulting experts 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
Our 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
Our logistics consulting teams 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.
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Our transportation and logistics consulting team achieves transformations across the postal and parcel, rail, shipping, and logistics industries to help clients:
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CEO Bo Cerup-Simonsen outlines the critical role that the newly formed organization will play in generating sustainable shipping by helping to innovate, implement, and scale the solutions that are best for society.
Transportation and logistics organizations that adopt smart digital strategies and frameworks generate new revenue streams and enhance their business models. Offering a complete range of digital transformation support, our Center for Digital in Transportation partners with clients from the initial steps of innovation strategy to the incubation of new corporate business ventures.
This digital transportation marketplace, originally built by BCG, matches the supply of and demand for containers across competing 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 shipping industry is responsible for 3% of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions, but only 46% of the largest shipping companies have taken responsibility by committing to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) targets. That’s why BCG and the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping have developed the new ESG Playbook for Shipping. Designed to help navigate the ESG landscape, this playbook describes tangible steps to help shipping companies set—and reach—ambitious ESG targets. For more information on how to get started on your ESG journey, please contact BCG's Peter Jameson.
Organizations that develop and maintain transportation infrastructure can employ a use-case-driven approach to find the optimal tech solutions to support their climate resilience.
By segmenting shipowners and operators according to their commitment to decarbonization, stakeholders can accelerate their adoption of capabilities and technologies to reduce those emissions.
