When the mobility experts at Penske began building a new AI platform for their B2B customers, they partnered with BCG. Sherry Sanger, Penske’s EVP of Strategy and Marketing, explains how the company combines their data and expertise with evolving technology.
Our Transportation and Logistics Services
Our rail operations consulting team partners with urban transportation, rail freight, rail maintenance, and rail technology companies. Learn more about our services.
BCG’s bold transformation programs address shipping companies’ strategic, commercial, cost, and organizational challenges. Learn more.
Our postal and parcel management, auditing, and consulting team helps companies steer a profitable path through the challenges of today—and tomorrow. Read more.
BCG’s logistics and freight consulting team works with companies specializing in sea forwarding, freight forwarding, contract logistics, road & air freight, and cargo.
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Where We Deliver Value in the Transportation and Logistics Industry
Our transportation and logistics consulting team achieves transformations across the
postal and parcel,
rail,
shipping, and
logistics industries to help clients:
- Shape strategy in the pursuit of growth. We help you tailor your operating model and organization to the current realities of the market—and to anticipate the changes you’ll need for the future.
- Invest continuously in tech, analytics, and capabilities. We help you digitize your business on your own—or partner with disruptive players upending logistics operations and the transportation market.
- Embrace greener supply chains and technologies. We help navigate new regulations and their implications, such as the shipping fuel regulations in light of IMO 2020. We also move beyond compliance, helping to meet customers’ rising demand for environmentally sustainable services.
- Deliver service excellence. With our guidance, you can deploy a multichannel strategy to develop and deliver an end-to-end customer journey.
- Understand and adapt to market dynamics. We help you respond to current trends in trade, tariffs, and protectionism—and anticipate new and emerging shifts.
Our Clients’ Success in Transportation and Logistics
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October 1, 2024
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August 28, 2023
Alberto Milvio, former CFO of Autostrade per l’Italia Group, and Concetta Testa, head of sustainability, share how the company is working to realize sustainable infrastructure.
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September 29, 2021
Tackling Decarbonization with the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon
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.
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Center for Digital in Transportation
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.
Our Featured Tools and Solutions
Container XChange
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.
Container XChange
Shipping Benchmark Initiative
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.
Shipping Benchmark Initiative
Our ESG Playbook for Shipping Decarbonization
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 an 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.
Our Latest Insights on Transportation and Logistics
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July 24, 2024
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.
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September 27, 2023
By segmenting shipowners and operators according to their commitment to decarbonization, stakeholders can accelerate their adoption of capabilities and technologies to reduce those emissions.
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