Last week, our UK sustainability and logistics teams attended Multimodal 2025, the UK’s leading transport, logistics, and supply chain exhibition held at Birmingham’s NEC.
The event brought together thought leaders and logistics professionals from across road, rail, sea, and air to explore the challenges and opportunities shaping the future of multimodal transport. It also proved to be an excellent day for knowledge sharing amongst attendees, and a space to observe the latest technological developments to make supply chains more sustainable, cost-effective, and efficient.
Across the conference speaker sessions and show floor, three key themes stood out to our attendees:
AI in logistics is becoming practical and scalable: From predictive ETA to warehouse automation, AI solutions are being developed and evolved quickly – offering huge potential in cost saving and operational efficiency. However, many discussions highlighted that adoption depends on robust data infrastructure and trusted decision-making frameworks
Sustainability is now embedded in strategy: With increasing focus on Scope 3 emissions, modal shift, and low-carbon fleets, sustainability is now embedded into operational strategy. Change is being driven both by regulation such as the UK SAF mandate, and by consumer pressure. Collaboration across the supply chain will be key to achieving meaningful carbon reduction, which often comes hand in hand with gains in operational efficiency
Resilience set as a top priority: Whether through diversified networks, multimodal routing, or investment in digital control towers, organisations are shifting towards supply chains designed to be flexible and disruption ready
Multimodal echoed many of the insights we captured in our recent Operations Outlook 2025 research report especially the growing need to align technology investment with resilience, sustainability, and long-term capability building. Click below to download the report.
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A big thank you to all the speakers, organisers, and attendees for another impactful edition of Multimodal. We enjoyed engaging conversations with clients and partners around logistics transformation and are excited to continue supporting the industry as it navigates change.
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