Rob James on “Law and the New Logistics”

The last couple of decades—and especially the year 2020-21, which unleashed a decade’s worth of changes on its own—reveal a dramatic set of changes in both the transport world and the law that can be fairly termed the “new logistics.” Rob reviewed the transformation of the field and the legal responses, including:

• The rise of global supply chains, followed by the re-emergence of local supply and manufacture;
• Security, cyber, physical and public policy risks, and both fleeting and permanent lessons from 2020-21;
• Changes in vehicles (larger vessels, meet the Suez Canal) and in logistics players (including “big box” retailers and online marketplaces); and
• The environmental, social and governance (ESG) overlay—applying concepts of equity, climate change and the circular economy.

The upshot is that our global marketplace will never be the same, and that the law of transportation will adapt to new conditions in ways that deserve our renewed and refreshed attention.

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