Logistics & Transport Executive Recruiters

Logistics & Transport at a glance

Spending in the U.S. logistics and transportation industry totaled $1.4 trillion in 2016, according to U.S. government statistics. It is an industry that often entails public/private partnerships,  along with the ability to navigate complicated laws and regulation that span borders and even continents.

The logistics and transport industry is vast and contains sub-sectors such as:

• Logistics: Behind the machinery and technology that actually moves goods are the logistics professionals that plan and manage those routes.
• Air and Express delivery services (EDS): These firms arrange for the time-sensitive delivery of important documents and goods and are often a critical service for small and medium sized business who cannot afford their own delivery infrastructure.
• Freight rail: Heavy goods like coal, metal, wheat, corn are often shipped via a 140,000 mile rail system that carried 5 million tons of goods per year.
• Maritime: The management and labor involved in transporting goods by sea falls into this category, including cargo ships, terminals, seaports and the land-based workers who service them.
• Trucking: medium and short-distance movement of cargo is often reliant on trucking fleets.

Major Industry Concerns for the Logistics & Transport

We find the following concerns rising to the top for our construction company clients:

• Technology: Logistics & transport executives are well-versed in technological applications that can make their real-world operations more efficient, reliable and secure.
• Regulation: The ability to navigate changing requirements across differing geographical environments is a top-level requirement in this industry.
• Security: While overseeing thousands of travel miles that are the bedrock of logistics and transport, executives in this sector need a sophisticated understanding of the security required to safeguard fleets and operations all over the globe.