Supply Chain Research

Employment in the U.S. logistics industry climbed by 3.7% year over year in November, making the fastest rate of expansion since December 2015. That’s been due to strength in the intra-national sectors including trucking, rail and couriers. The internationally-exposed sectors may be struggling due to the widening range of duties applied by the Trump administration against trading partners including China. The growth in air transport employment fell to 1.1% and was the slowest in over four years. Waterways and port employment (including harbor pilots) meanwhile fell 0.3%. That compared to...