Logistics UK

Logistics has had more than its fair share of challenges to grapple with in recent years, including Brexit, the COVID-19 pandemic, and an acute skills shortage. We’re now facing a new set of challenges – issues including double-digit inflation, waferthin margins, supply chain disruption and shifting geopolitical threats.

In my view there is one challenge that trumps all others – the urgent need for the industry to play its part in helping to avoid a climatic tipping point, by decarbonising at pace. This will involve close collaboration with other business sectors, notably the energy and manufacturing industries, as well as with government and academia, as well as changing behaviours across our sector.

Manufacturers are already designing and developing the cutting-edge vehicles that will underpin the change that our industry needs to see, while the energy sector is working on creating the infrastructure needed to power the switch to a lowcarbon economy. We can and must do things differently.

That is why shows like ITT Hub are so important. Now in its third year, it brings together major players from key business sectors that will shape the future of our industry.

Technology and innovation have a critical role to play in helping the transport industry to decarbonise. That is why I am delighted that Logistics UK is once again leading the Future Logistics Conference, an integral part of the ITT Hub show. We have assembled a group of insightful speakers to drive two days of thinking and debate and explore what the future may look like for our sector.

We stand at the cusp of a revolution in transport. Only by discussing the challenges that lie ahead today, can we grasp the opportunities of tomorrow.

David Wells OBE, CEO, Logistics UK