Automotive Inbound Logistics Survey 2025
The Automotive Inbound Logistics Survey 2025, in partnership with DP World, explores automotive inbound logistics, diving deep into the pertinent issues around tariffs, costs, digitalisation, and investment. Join the survey, win a prize, and gain access to vital insights on the challenges, constraints, and opportunities the sector faces.
Automotive inbound logistics is at a critical juncture, and will be profoundly reshaped by far-reaching tariffs, trade wars, reshoring, and the imperatives of digital transformation. The regression towards a more protectionist, isolationist economic model has profound ramifications for automotive inbound logistics. But exactly how companies respond, react, and reinvent themselves in this new economic world order is the real question. To map this dynamic landscape, we are conducting the Automotive Inbound Logistics Survey 2025 in partnership with leading logistics provider DP World.
Why is this survey important?
Participation in this survey is not only an opportunity to capture current industry sentiment, but an opportunity to understand how the industry is responding, and what the future outlook holds in the context of considerable industry flux. Respondents will gain early access to a comprehensive report that insightfully captures the state of automotive inbound logistics globally. The findings promise to capture a clear industry perspective, offer actionable insights, and provide a deep dive analysis of the forces shaping the automotive inbound logistics space.
The survey’s scope includes insightful questions on:
Challenges – what are the pain points, pressures and issue facing stakeholders?
Opportunities – where are the growth areas and upsides to current pressures?
Cost pressures – where are the current issues & effects of cost pressures
Digitalisation – what are the benefits & constraints from further implementation?
Packaging – what is driving innovation in packaging?
Regulatory compliance – now a rapidly growing area of importance
Tariffs impacts & strategies – perhaps the dominant issue shaping inbound logistics
Freight rates – uncertainty and volatility shape the freight rate outlook
Investment – a vital component in all areas of automotive inbound logistics
Overall automotive inbound logistics outlook – we capture the industry sentiment
Join the conversation
This survey invites a wide range of perspectives - from logistics service providers (LSPs), to OEMs, tier suppliers and software and technology providers - to contribute to a richer understanding of where the industry is headed. Your participation will therefore help formulate a detailed outlook of the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.
About DP World
DP World is reshaping the future of global trade to improve lives everywhere. Operating across six continents with a team of over 100,000 employees, we combine global infrastructure and local expertise to deliver seamless supply chain solutions. From Ports and Terminals to Marine Services, Logistics and Technology, we leverage innovation to create better ways to trade, minimising disruptions from the factory floor to the customer’s door.